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Truly shocking account of how the law can be discarded when those in power really want to persecute an innocent citizen.
Geoffrey Robertson QC revisits the 1963 trial of Stephen Ward, the society osteopath and portrait painter who became enmeshed in the Profumo Scandal. Robertson argues that the Home Secretary of the time improperly ordered the police to find something on Ward with which to charge him. Ward was basically picked on for his rakish lifestyle and because he was deemed to have been th ...more
Geoffrey Robertson QC revisits the 1963 trial of Stephen Ward, the society osteopath and portrait painter who became enmeshed in the Profumo Scandal. Robertson argues that the Home Secretary of the time improperly ordered the police to find something on Ward with which to charge him. Ward was basically picked on for his rakish lifestyle and because he was deemed to have been th ...more
