The Day the King Died concerns the shooting dead of two police
officers and shows how the police convinced themselves that they
had the right man. This new book contains a close analysis of the
effect of the activities of lawyers and police on the jury in a
capital case and reinforces the forceful claims of campaign groups
connected to the case. There was a quaint British convention under
which executions were stopped and sentence commuted to life
imprisonment if scheduled to take place on the day the sovereign
died. Alfred Moore was doubly unfortunate: he was on the scaffold
an hour before the death of King George VI was announced. He
protested his innocence all along but never could clear his name as
he had vowed to do from the moment of his arrest. In this new book,
the author re-assesses this case of the double murder of two police
officers and shows why the trial at Leeds Assizes was a travesty of
justice - packed with mistakes, inaccuracies, dubious
recollections, supposition and conjecture.Set against the social
backdrop of 1950s West Yorkshire, the book analyses the
interactions of the lawyers, police and jury and demonstrates the
need for caution where accounts may be driven by preconceptions or
'fit' too tidily with those of others. The result is a masterly
explanation of the plight of a condemned man caught up in the
questionable practices of the era: which adds to the voices of
those calling for justice in a case in which police and prosecutors
almost certainly put the wrong man on trial. 'My Lord, I protest my
innocence. I am not guilty': Alfred Moore on being sentenced to
death.
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