'Peppermint Billy' Brown was hanged in front of 25,000 people, but did he really commit the crime?
The last man to be publicly hanged in Leicester has been "cleared" of murder in a reconstruction of his trial.
She said: "This was a very gruesome murder of a tollgate keeper and his son that led to William Brown being the last man hanged publicly in Leicester, before a crowd of 25,000 outside the Leicester county jail, now the Welford Road Prison. "So we decided to stage our own retrial in front of an audience, with a judge, a jury - but this time no executioner.""We used the original transcripts of the trial as well as new evidence I found in my research."
"It was a lot of fun but it was also quite emotional because we reflected that William was given no real defence when he went on trial and should not have been hanged.Descendants of some of the participants in the original trial were traced by Ms Vigor Mungovin and agreed to take part in the event.They included John Woodford, the great-great-great grandson of Constable Alfred Routen who was the first police officer to arrive at the murder scene.
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