The case prompted George Orwell to write an essay ‘Decline of the English Murder’.
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The son of Joshua Joyce Casswell, and Sarah Tate, Casswell was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford University, gaining an honours degree in Jurisprudence in 1909.
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In 1935, Casswell acted for George Percy Stoner, a Bournemouth chauffeur, who was accused of murdering his employer, the architect Francis Rattenbury.