This is the case of Welshman Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully hanged on 9 March in 1950 for a murder he did not commit.
The Tragic Injustice
Timothy John Evans was a lorry driver from Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. In January of 1950, he was wrongfully tried and convicted of murdering his wife and infant daughter at their residence in Notting Hill, London. He was found guilty during the trial and sentenced to death by hanging.
Throughout the trial, Evans accused and insisted that a neighbour, John Christie, was the true culprit. In a cruel miscarriage of justice, Christie was even chief prosecution witness in the case against him – it would later turn out that Evans was correct and that Christie was a serial killer who had murdered at least eight women.
Sadly, by then, it was too late and Evans had already been wrongfully hanged – a gross miscarriage of justice which would ultimately contribute to the abolition of capital punishment 15 years later.
He would receive a posthumous pardon.
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