John Christie
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Ludovic Kennedy...the abolition of the death penalty in the UK. Kennedy's book was filmed in 1970: Richard Fleischer's film ''10 Rillington Place starred John Hurt as Evans and Richard Attenborough as Christie. In 1985, Kennedy published The Airman And The... In this article: Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy, Bismarck, John Christie, Stephen Rea, Royal Navy, Liberal Democrats, 10 Rillington Place, and Christianity |
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Daily Mail | October 19, 2009
Sir Ludovic Kennedy, journalist and death penalty opponent, dies aged 89
...daughter. Sir Ludovic maintained that the serial killer John Christie was responsible, and after a police inquiry, Evans was granted a posthumous pardon and Sir Ludovic's book was turned into a film starring John Hurt in 1970. Born in...
In this article: Ludovic Kennedy, Moira Shearer, Panorama, Liberal Democrat, and 10 Rillington Place
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Guardian Unlimited | October 19, 2009
Ludovic Kennedy dies aged 89
...the erroneous hanging of Timothy Evans for the murder of his infant daughter, committed in 1949 by an older ex-policeman lodger, John Christie, at the same address. This led to a posthumous free pardon by the home secretary in 1966; in the...
In this article: Ludovic Kennedy, Jo Grimond, God, Moira Shearer, 10 Rillington Place, Edinburgh University, and Silver
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Timothy Evans
...Tickles Your Fancy. The film 10 Rillington Place was released in the UK on 10 February 1971. It was directed by Richard Fleischer and starred Richard Attenborough as Christie, Judy Geeson as Beryl Evans, and John Hurt as Timothy Evans.
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10 Rillington Place
...by Ludovic Kennedy. It dramatises the case of British serial killer John Christie , who committed most or all of his crimes at his home, 10 Rillington Place and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans. The film relies on the...
In this article: 10 Rillington Place, Ludovic Kennedy, Clive Exton, John Hurt, Richard Attenborough, and Judy Geeson
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Author Kennedy dies
...argued the case of Timothy Evans, who was executed for the murder of his baby daughter. The culprit was later uncovered as serial killer John Christie. Kennedy's book was turned into a 1970 movie starring Richard Attenborough and John...
In this article: Culprit, John Hurt, Richard Attenborough, and Salisbury, England
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New York Times | February 19, 2008
Richard Fleischer - Movies - New York Times
...as "the Judge"). They blend easily into Fleischer's carefully observed backgrounds, none more smoothly and deceptively than John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough) of "10 Rillington Place," the London landlord (and real-life figure)...
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Village Voice | June 23, 2009
10 Rillington Coolly Documents the Case of an Infamous Lady Killer
...(John Hurt and Judy Geeson) and their baby daughter. There's increasingly violent bickering; Mrs. Evans is pregnant, and creepy Mr. Christie offers to perform the "termination." In the giant squid from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea...
In this article: 10 Rillington Place, Richard Fleischer, John Hurt, Richard Attenborough, The Boston Strangler, Donald Spoto, Supreme Court, and Disney
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John Reginald Halliday Christie (born April 8, 1898, Halifax; died July 15, 1953) was an English serial killer active in the 1940s and 1950s. He was arrested, tried, and hanged for murder in 1953.
Prior to his arrest, he was involved in another murder trial, as a principal witness for the Crown in the trial of his fellow tenant, Timothy Evans. Evans was accused of the murders of his own wife and child, and subsequently convicted of, and executed for, the murder of the baby. Some critics have concluded that Christie committed the murders and framed Evans for them, while others have suggested that there could have been two separate murderers living in the same shared house at the same time. Mr Justice Brabin stated in 1966 that it was "more probable than not" that Evans killed his wife and that he did not kill his daughter Geraldine. However, Christie himself confessed to killing Beryl Evans and several other women (including his own wife), and it is now accepted by the High Court that Evans was entirely innocent of the crimes of which he was accused. The case sparked massive public outrage, and contributed to the suspension and eventual abolition of the death penalty for murder in Britain in 1965 (though it still had the death penalty for espionage, piracy, treason until 1972, 1981 and 1998 respectively) .
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