Wild Justice: Lynn Siddons Murder

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Wild Justice: Lynn Siddons Murder

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However, his defence collapsed the trial, and he was never convicted. Ever since then, Thatcherist politicians have taken up his example, using "spin" and jaw-flapping measures to scupper public intelligence over matters of national importance while they squander the nation's heritage for their own personal success. After the trial the step-son retracted his claim that his step-father had been involved. Speaking at the time, he said: "Lynn Siddons's family had this incredible resolve and Flo was the driving force behind it all.

In 1978, 16 year-old Lynn Siddons was murdered on a canal towpath in Derby and her body left hidden in bushes. She had been stabbed 43 times, strangled unsuccessfully, and finally drowned in a puddle. Algae was found in her lungs. A 15 year-old boy was seen by eyewitnesses to leave the crime scene alone, and his age helps to explain why the killer had had so much trouble in killing the girl. The boy, who was recognized by the witnesses, was taken in for questioning, charged with murder, and tried in November. The confirmation of Brookes as the killer is the culmination of a lengthy campaign waged by Florence Siddons. They are right, what I did was professionally unforgiveable, but I did it because I would not have been able to live with myself knowing that Brookes was out there and could have killed again. Mr Chittenden, of Aston-on-Trent, said: “I have nothing at all against the SRA for what they did to me because I admitted it and they are just doing their job. Flo Siddons and her family fought to find the man who stabbed 16-year-old Lynn Siddons more than 40 times.Brookes was later tried and convicted, but appealed against the verdict in 1998, saying he could not get a fair trial following publicity about the case, but his appeal was rejected. In 1991 the three women turned to the civil courts, which are noted for having a cavalier attitude to culpability in criminal cases, and they prosecuted the step-father there. The women saw the frenzy with which they had hounded Brookes for so many years as the explanation for the 43 stab wounds and the messy finish, but this didn't accord with the other part of the story that their case was based on, which was that Brookes had only held the girl and that he had given the knife to his step-son instead. The memorial was arranged by British Waterways and is located about two miles from Lynn's home in Sinfin. Lynn's mother, Gail Halford, 53, said: "We are really pleased because he would have been a free man if he had won the appeal. Now he must serve his sentence. He deserved what he got." He said: "Among the information I handed over was evidence the boy told me and a psychiatrist of how he was scared of his stepfather, who would cut out pictures of women from the magazines and stab them with a knife.”

Miss Siddons's late grandmother, Flo Siddons, campaigned hard to bring Brookes to justice and was handed a string of awards for her tireless work. Show Sponsor: Care/Of - Find the right vitamins, protein, and now collagen too, personalized just for you. The plaque reads: "In loving memory of Lynn Siddons, 16 years old, tragically killed April 3 1978 - deep in our heart you will stay, loved and remembered every day." Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Justice, Mrs Siddons said: "We've been going for 20 years now and I am very pleased with the result."Murdered Derby teenager Lynn Siddons (left) and Michael Brookes (right), the man who killed her (Image: Derby Telegraph) Brookes, serving a minimum 26-year life sentence, had argued he did not get a fair trial, partly because of the intense media coverage of the campaign - including a civil damages action in which a judge said he was the murderer. Flo's daughter Gail Holford, said: "It was a long hard fight but my mum was always there at the front. He said: “In the papers the SRA says that by admitting these actions it constituted conduct that is completely unacceptable on the part of a solicitor and they are absolutely right.

It was only then that Derbyshire Police, who accepted criticism of the way they had handled the case, charged Brookes with the murder. Within the papers was, Mr Chittenden said, evidence from Roy Brookes that he had been put up by his stepfather to take part in killing Miss Siddons with him. Read More Related Articles While a motive can be detected in the case of the step-son, it is impossible to find one in the case of Michael Brookes. One would have to imagine one. A detectable motive for the boy using his step-father to carry the blame for the murder is that he was very immature, that he was still dependent on the protection and provision of the parent, and that he was homicidal. He was strongly attached to both his victims, and there is an interesting logic in the matter of this motive, because the physical weakness that is evident in the murder would not only have disappointed the boy's sexual success with the murdered girl, it would also have disappointed his self-esteem as the progeny of the 6 ft. 2 in. giant Michael Brookes, who was not his natural father, and who had not therefore passed his quality of strength to the boy, who must naturally look up to the parent and identify with it. The victims therefore share the same relationship problem for the killer, and they are combined in his motive. The appeal court judges declared that they had "no lurking doubt about the safety of the conviction", which is an astonishing admission, since it means that they had neither instinct nor intelligence for any doubt about it. This would mean that they were not qualified to judge the appeal.

In 1998 he mounted an appeal, but the appeal court judges determined that a murderer's defence was worth more in criminal trials than the logic of the evidence or the eyewitnesses, and his appeal failed.

The family of a woman murdered 25 years ago have unveiled a plaque at the spot where she was killed. Mr Chittenden, a father-of-three, helped to clear 16-year-old Roy Brookes of the murder of Sinfin girl Lynn Siddons when he was acquitted of the killing in 1978.It was only then that Derbyshire police, who accepted criticism of the way they had handled the case, charged Brookes with the murder. A Derby woman who spent 18 years campaigning to bring her granddaughter's murderer to justice has died aged 92. But while speaking to his teenage client before and during the trial, it became clear to him that the real killer was the boy's stepfather, Michael Brookes. I could have said nothing but I chose not to and the support I got from people afterwards was overwhelming and still is.” Read More Related Articles Mr Chittenden said he then made the decision to release the papers to solicitors acting for Miss Siddons's family.



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