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5 unusual facts about Old Bailey


Edmund Walter Pook

Newspaper accounts of the time had intimated Edmund's guilt, even before his trial, which took place at the Old Bailey in July 1871.

Frantisek Kotzwara

Susannah Hill was tried on September 16 for Kotzwara's murder at the Old Bailey but was acquitted.

Hanserd Knollys

He was committed to the Bishopgate compter, but was considerately treated and was allowed to preach to the prisoners; at the next Old Bailey sessions he obtained his discharge.

Payne Fisher

Fisher died in poverty in a coffee-house in the Old Bailey 2 April 1693, and was buried 6 April in a yard belonging to the church of St. Sepulchre's.

Tonbridge

On 28 January 2008 five people were convicted at the Old Bailey.


2001 BBC bombing

They were convicted at the Old Bailey on 8 April 2003, together with two other men – James McCormack, of County Louth, and John Hannan, of Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, both of whom had already admitted the charge at an earlier hearing.

Anna Wolkoff

She was tried in camera at the Old Bailey, with Sir William Jowitt as prosecutor.

Gerald Moira

His other early commissions included the ceilings of the vestry and library of the Unitarian Chapel, Liverpool, the board-room of Lloyd's Register of Shipping, and paintings and stained glass for the Central Criminal Court in London.

Giltspur Street

Giltspur Street is a street in Smithfield in the City of London, running north-south from the junction of Newgate Street, Holborn Viaduct and Old Bailey, up to West Smithfield, and it is bounded to the east by St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Horsemonger Lane Gaol

At his Old Bailey trial he was sent to Broadmoor as insane, to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure.

Michael Bettaney

was an intelligence officer working in the Counter-espionage branch of MI5 who was convicted at the Old Bailey in 1984 of offences under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 after passing sensitive documents to the Soviet Embassy in London and attempting to act as an agent-in-place for the Soviet Union.

New Cross double murder

Bench chairman Phil Rogers ordered his remand in custody until 16 October for his appearance at the Old Bailey.

Robert Napper

In his summing up at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Griffiths Williams said to Napper: "You are on any view a very dangerous man".

Wal Hannington

In 1925 he was one of 12 members of the Communist Party convicted at the Old Bailey under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797, and one of the five defendants sentenced to 12 months imprisonment.


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Matthew Butcher

On the evening of February 4, 2008, Matthew Butcher and several other police officers intervened in a pub brawl at the Old Bailey tavern in Joondalup, Perth, opposite the Joondalup police station.

The Eagle Has Landed

John Amery, founding father of the The Legion of St. George, was sentenced to death for high treason by Mr Justice Humphreys in No .1 Court at the Old Bailey in November 1945, and Harvey Preston's comrades of the British Free Corps fared no better.