Murder: The Biography
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THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times
'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof.David
Wilson Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography
is a gruesome and utterly captivating portrait of the legal history
of murder. The stories and the people involved in the history of
murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime
fiction. There's Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose
death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts
to decisively outlaw a defence of necessity to murder.Dr Percy
Bateman, the incompetent GP whose violent disregard for his patient
changed the law on manslaughter. Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged
in England in the 1950s, played a crucial role in changes to the
law around provocation in murder cases. And Archibald Kinloch, the
deranged Scottish aristocrat whose fratricidal frenzy paved the way
for the defence of diminished responsibility.These, and many more,
are the people - victims, killers, lawyers and judges, who
unwittingly shaped the history of that most grisly and storied of
laws. Join lawyer and writer Kate Morgan on a dark and macabre
journey as she explores the strange stories and mysterious cases
that have contributed to UK murder law. The big corporate killers,
the vengeful spouses, the sloppy doctors, the abused partners, the
shoddy employers, each story a crime and each crime a precedent
that has contributed to the law's dark, murky and, at times,
shocking standing.
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HarperCollins Publishers ,
Kate Morgan
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HarperCollins Publishers,
Kate Morgan
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