Today, Scottish Legal News informs me:
"The case of one of the most notorious murderers in British history, Hawley Crippen, is to be referred to the Court of Appeal, where the infamous doctor may secure a posthumous pardon - 99 years after he was hanged.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission has been examining the safety of Dr Crippen's conviction.
Key to the case are the results of DNA tests from US forensic biologists which show that the remains in the cellar could not be those of Crippen's wife because they belong to a man.
Giovanni Di Stefano and James Lewis QC, acting for Patrick Crippen, a relative of the doctor, said they have been told that the case would be referred to the court in a development that may make Crippen the victim of the longest miscarriage of justice in British history - rather than a name that is a byword for murder most foul.
Crippen was hanged and buried in the grounds of Pentonville prison after a jury found him guilty.
According to prosecutors at his Old Bailey trial in 1910, the homeopathic practitioner poisoned his unfaithful wife, Cora, dissected her body and buried the remains in the cellar of their north London home.
Police found a corpse with no head, bones or genitals.
Preparations are already under way to begin the exhumation of Crippen's body at Pentonville."
Key to the case are the results of DNA tests from US forensic biologists which show that the remains in the cellar could not be those of Crippen's wife because they belong to a man.
Giovanni Di Stefano and James Lewis QC, acting for Patrick Crippen, a relative of the doctor, said they have been told that the case would be referred to the court in a development that may make Crippen the victim of the longest miscarriage of justice in British history - rather than a name that is a byword for murder most foul.
Crippen was hanged and buried in the grounds of Pentonville prison after a jury found him guilty.
According to prosecutors at his Old Bailey trial in 1910, the homeopathic practitioner poisoned his unfaithful wife, Cora, dissected her body and buried the remains in the cellar of their north London home.
Police found a corpse with no head, bones or genitals.
Preparations are already under way to begin the exhumation of Crippen's body at Pentonville."
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I am a relative of Dr Hawley Crippen. I am having a hard time accepting the fact that everytime something is published on this subject that my other relative Patrick Crippen is always reported as the sole surviving heir to hawley crippen. It He is granted a pardon and England acknowledges this then I see it fit to persue them legally. Are there any lawyers out there who are willing to help me do this?
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