Peter Clarke Sept 6 2017: 42.03 The evidence would have been collected in a better fashion. I don’t think anyone knows why they weren’t convicted, I think it was badly presented evidence, and issues like that and I think these days we would certainly collect the evidence much more efficiently, and effectively and the presentation at court would be much better, ……..42.48 You didn’t have these forensic skills available then, you couldn’t link a bullet to a specific firearm. It used to be a case of “this bullet came from this site… “ was as probably as far as you could get with it. The matching of marks on a bullet with a particular gun wasn’t present then. ……43.43 It’s night time, what witnessed were there to it, there weren’t any direct witnesses to what happened – the way the police found out information was basically by talking to people and finding out what the rumours were and things like that. …. 44.24 Certainly there was a case in the 1940s where a person was killed in the city, and the way they found the suspects was they rounded up 200 people they thought might have done it and then they realised there were two people they would normally round up who weren’t there. It turned out they were the two who had actually committed the offence!
Press A to find out about the model Press B to find out what made Houndsditch so significant Nobody was convicted in the Houndsditch Case. Press C to find out what would have happened that Houndsditch happened today