The smears came inside and outside the courtroom. Patricia Knight said she held Magson’s mother and Justice For Women responsible for these lies. The former went on TV and claimed James had a history of abusing women. She also claimed/admitted she had been a bad mother, which may be true because Magson had been raised […]
Early on the morning of March 27, 2016, Emma-Jayne Magson plunged a steak knife into the heart of her lover James Knight, told his brother and two other people he had simply fallen over due to taking recreational drugs, then sat and watched him die as she told the emergency services not to hurry. Magson […]
On October 30, a virtual prize giving will be held for the annual Emma Humphreys award, the first such prize giving to be held on-line. Emma Humphreys died in 1998 at the young age of thirty. What was the great achievement in her short life that brought her praise, adulation, even homage, you might ask? […]
In May 2014, two 12 year old girls lured a third into the woods and stabbed her 19 times. This was the utterly bizarre Slender Man case. One blow connected with Payton Leutner’s heart; a millimetre the other way, and she would have been killed, but incredibly she survived and made a miraculous recovery, though of course no one recovers totally psychologically from something so horrific.
If convicting innocent men of rape is not bad enough, exculpating women convicted of murder on compelling evidence is no better if not worse, yet that is the mission of the misnamed Centre For Women’s Justice. Although this pernicious organisation has had charitable status since only 2016, it has been around a lot longer than that as Justice For Women, with which it is synonymous. Set up by the lawyer Harriet Wistrich and her lover Julie Bindel, its first big win came in 1995 when it secured the release of Emma Humphreys.
