Thomas Grant QC is a practising barrister. The paperback of his book Court Number One, The Old Bailey: The Trials and Scandals that Shocked Modern Britain is published in July by John Murray.
The death in February of one of the titans of the Bar, John Mathew QC, cut another link with the post-war period of ebullient criminality and showy trials. Mathew defended one of the Great Train Robbers and David Holmes in the Jeremy Thorpe trials, and prosecuted the Krays and Harry Roberts. He remembered a period
The death in February of one of the titans of the Bar, John Mathew QC, cut another link with the post-war period of ebullient criminality and showy trials. Mathew defended in the Great Train Robbery and Jeremy Thorpe trials and prosecuted the Krays and Harry Roberts. He remembered a period when you could park your