50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - JUDGE RINDER INVESTIGATED THE BAKEWELL CEMETERY MURDER & includes Don Hale's best selling book MURDER IN THE GRAVEYARD

JUDGE RINDER INVESTIGATED RIPPER LINKS TO OTHER MURDERS...AND DON HALE'S REVEALING BOOK - MURDER IN THE GRAVEYARD...

*This is the Amazon book link: https://amzn.to/41srO6k

 Report by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com

 

About five years ago, TV reality show icon, Judge Robert Rinder investigated whether the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe may have viciously attacked and murdered three other additional female victims in high-profile crime cases that still-remain unsolved.

**SEE JUDGE RINDER’S CRIME SHOW NOW: https://youtu.be/OfWGPGFT5b0

**SEE THE AWARD WINNING BBC TV DOCUMENTARY - MURDER IN THE GRAVEYARD ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/Y3Fe-KGQRUw

**SEE STEPHEN DOWNING'S OWN STORY - ANOTHER AWARD WINNING BBC DOCUMENTARY: https://youtu.be/zE1QEtfhXiE

**SEE BBC TV'S SOPHIE RAWORTH AND HER INTERVIEW WITH DON HALE: https://youtu.be/2XDiD3K6Fig

 

The experienced criminal barrister who normally presides as the popular Judge in a mock courtroom overseeing a variety of debates and consumer issues on ITV studied up to 18 historic, or important cases during his informative daytime show about 2016.

Called, ‘Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories,’ and deliberately scheduled for a new afternoon slot on the same channel, he then deliberated on important factors that may have influenced the outcome of several true-life incidents, highlighting new interviews with key participants.

 

Stephen Downing case

 

One of the first and most controversial cases to come under his scrutiny will be the brutal murder of legal secretary Wendy Sewell in September 1973, for which Stephen Downing spent over 27-years in jail for a murder he did not commit.

Known as the ‘Bakewell Tart’ murder, due to the victim’s alleged promiscuity, it became the UK’s worst ever miscarriage of justice attracting worldwide attention, and even helped changed British and European law.

*The story was revealed in a best selling book published by Harper Collins in 2019 by author Don Hale which revealed the true facts behind this case and the results of his successful campaign to help free Stephen Downing: 

*This is the Amazon book link: https://amzn.to/41srO6k

TV drama

 

It was also the subject of a TV drama starring Stephen Tompkinson in the lead role as Don Hale, the investigative journalist, and editor of the local newspaper who helped quash the conviction.

Judge Rinder quit his famous set to consider whether, as experts now believe, that her killing was in fact the work of the Ripper, and can also be linked to the murders of Jackie Ansell-Lamb and Barbara Mayo.

Stephen, was just 17 when jailed for Mrs Sewell’s murder in 1973. She was viciously attacked with a pickaxe handle in a small Derbyshire graveyard where he worked as a gardener.

He found her body and called for help but the young teenager, who suffered from learning difficulties at the time, had bloodstaining on his clothes, and was later made to sign a confession by police officers after being forcefully detained for up to 9 hours.

An 8-year campaign launched in 1994 by Hale and a new legal team, later proved the police had ‘substantially and significantly’ breached the Judge’s rules, and successfully challenged the original forensic analysis.

When the conviction was eventually quashed in 2002, Stephen secured a record compensation payment of nearly £1M from the UK government.

The case became the subject of a major human rights issue and helped changed both European and British Law by allowing prisoners in denial of murder, the opportunity to present their submissions directly to the parole board.

It was even debated in Parliament and helped with the creation of a new system of justice, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which now studies all alleged miscarriage cases.

This week key characters from the case including Stephen Downing, Don Hale, and cold-case detective Chris Clark, a Yorkshire Ripper expert, and a respected author on the subject matter, attended ITV’s Manchester studios to provide new and exclusive interviews to the show.

In addition, Chris, later found a vital hidden police pathology report buried for over 40-years.

He confirmed: “Wendy Sewell’s murder bears the hallmarks of the Yorkshire Ripper. The report confirms that Downing should have been released within days of the attack on Mrs Sewell.

“At that time, it confirms senior officers attended the post mortem and were well-aware the victim had been viciously struck 7 or 8 times, chocked with a ligature and kicked. Downing should then have been released within hours – not years.

“I also believe this murder is linked to two other similar killings which indicate the same MO of Sutcliffe, those of Barbara Mayo in Chesterfield, and Jackie-Ansell Lamb from Cheshire.”

**SEE JUDGE RINDER’S CRIME SHOW NOW: https://youtu.be/OfWGPGFT5b0

 

 **READ THE TRUE STORY - MURDER IN THE GRAVEYARD - BY DON HALE:

*This is the Amazon book link: https://amzn.to/41srO6k