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Derek Bentley was partially pardoned posthumously by Home Secretary Michael Howard, who said he should not have been hanged, but was still guilty.An exciting series is in the melting pot at the moment and will hopefully be appearing soon; remember where you heard it first. There is little in the way of discussion, though a brief introduction does give a short account of the story of the crime and its aftermath. His parents reported that in a childhood accident he had broken his nose and since then he had three seizure fits, including one in which they said he nearly died of choking. He later made a number of statements to police officers sitting with him in hospital, displaying a hatred of the police and a total lack of remorse at what he had done. This book covers the Bentley and Craig trial in 11 pages, half of which argue a mostly irrelevant point of law.

This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit. We feel bound to say that, in our judgment, the Court of Criminal Appeal failed to grapple with this ground of appeal, which should have succeeded".While she doesn't do anything to directly corrupt Derek, he is smitten and sees the hoodlum life as a way to get access to her (or girls like her). However, Matheson was of the opinion that whilst agreeing that Bentley was of low intelligence, he did not have epilepsy at the time of the alleged offence and he was not a "feeble-minded person" under the Mental Deficiency Acts. Very like Ludovic Kennedy's book about the Evans/Christie murders, 10 Rillington Place, in which Kennedy paints Timothy Evans as a gentle, guileless creature ripe for exploitation by the Macchiavellian Christie, MJ Trow paints Derek Bentley as an innocent, simple man-child led astray by Chris Craig. happened; Fairfax said to Craig "Hand over the gun, lad" and Bentley replied "Let him have it, Chris". Craig was too young to hang so Bentley, an illiterate, educationally subnormal epileptic, became an establishment scapegoat.