Court Number One

"The principal criminal court of England, reserved for the most serious and high-profile cases, Court One was opened in 1907 in the Old Bailey, and witnessed the most celebrated trials and sentencing of the most famous (and infamous) defendants of the twentieth century: including Seddon, Dr Crippen, George Smith, Thompson and Bywaters, Christie, Neville Heath, Ruth Ellis, John Bodkin Adams, Penguin Books, Stephen Ward, Christine Keeler, the Kray Brothers, Peter Sutcliffe, Denis Nilson. Telling the stories of ten trials that span over eighty years, this book traces the fears, preoccupations and advances of the twentieth century. Not only notorious for murder trials, Court One recorded the changing face of modern British society, in particular our attitudes to homosexuality, the death penalty, freedom of expression, insanity and the psychology of violence. From the bestselling author of Jeremy ""--Publisher."