In one 2021 case in Portsmouth, that of Lisa Blagden, where a murder charge would have been ludicrous given there wasn’t even a killing but rather a perinatal death of indeterminate cause, the bewilderingly punitive Wessex CPS went full steam ahead for a Victorian ‘concealment’ charge and prosecution. This was the prosecution of a groomed, abused, mentally unwell, poor and bereaved young woman who had been deprived in pretty much every way. When the case finally came to court, the judge quite rightfully and mercifully ordered that the accused be given an absolute discharge.
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I’m very pleased to have written a guest piece for the excellent website The History Girls. Please click on the link below to have a look - it’s under my name, dated 9th July. I’d also like to pay tribute to the wonderful work of the late Gordon Hillman, which inspired the article.
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