He suggested that this story became a distraction amid the doodle-bugs and created excitement because the man was sentenced to death and the girl to imprisonment - a call for the girl also to be hanged Orwell suggests flows from the brutalizing effects of the war, and that the story would not be as remembered as the older cases.
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The case prompted George Orwell to write an essay ‘Decline of the English Murder’.