Who Really Killed Claire? - 9781914603365
Waterside Press
ISBN13:
9781914603365
$35.56
Who Really Killed Claire? re-investigates the brutal yet apparently motiveless murder of 16-year-old Claire Tiltman in Greenhithe, Kent in 1993. It describes how police investigations faltered for almost 20 years until Colin Ash-Smith, due to be released from a long prison sentence for attacks on young women, was belatedly charged with this cold case murder. One of the UKs very first cases involving bad character evidence under a controversial new law. Expertly researched, the book revisits the crime scene, investigation, prosecution, media frenzy and questionable urgency that led to Ash-Smiths pre-emptive arrest and conviction for murder. Meanwhile, a predatory serial killer was eliminated from the investigation despite hallmarks making him a strong suspect. Well placed to raise doubts, ex-cold case investigator Alan Jackaman analyses the wholly circumstantial evidence and explains why he believes police became too preoccupied with the wrong man.
- | Author: Alan Jackaman
- | Publisher: Waterside Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 25, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1914603362
- | ISBN-13: 9781914603365
- Author:
- Alan Jackaman
- Publisher:
- Waterside Press
- Publication Date:
- Apr 25, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 240 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1914603362
- ISBN-13:
- 9781914603365