1950s Case Closed Or A Miscarriage Of Justice - Part 2 / The Conviction Of Alfred Burns & Edward Devlin
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 8 - EPISODE 40’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. Six months after the murder of 54-year-old widow Beatrice Alice Rimmer in the hallway of her Liverpool home, two young men from Manchester were facing the possibility of being executed. The prosecution's case was based on the evidence of informants who claimed to have seen Edward Devlin and Alfred Burns in the area at the time the crime was committed, and some alleged to have heard them plan a break-in at the victim’s home. After a week of legal proceedings, the accused were given the chance to plead their case and try to prove their innocence... (Part 2 of 2).
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes, profanity and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:12.7 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:17.8 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:25.1 | Thank you. Listener caution is advised. Six months after the murder of 54-year-old widow Beatrice Alice Rimmer in the hallway of her Liverpool |
| 0:32.4 | home, two young men from Manchester were facing the possibility of being executed. |
| 0:39.1 | The prosecution's case was based on the evidence of informants |
| 0:43.6 | who claimed to have seen Edward Devlin and Alfred Burns in the area at the time the crime was committed, |
| 0:50.6 | and some alleged to have heard them plan a break-in at the victim's home. |
| 0:56.0 | After a week of legal proceedings, |
| 0:59.0 | the accused were given the chance to plead their case |
| 1:02.0 | and try to prove their innocence. |
| 1:07.4 | Welcome to Season 8, Episode 41 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 1:18.2 | Please listen to Season 8, Episode 40 for part one of this two-part case. |
| 1:30.0 | Before her client, Edward Devlin testified in his defense, |
| 1:35.5 | Rose Halbron QC told the court that the leading prosecution witnesses, Juneberry, |
| 1:41.3 | Marie Mill and George McLaughlin, were unreliable and untrustworthy. |
| 1:48.0 | Discrepancies in their evidence had been pointed out during cross-examination, and Halbron |
| 1:53.3 | told the jury that the prosecution's case was riddled with inconsistencies. |
| 1:59.6 | That Mrs. Rimmer was cruelly murdered is beyond question, she said. |
| 2:04.6 | What you have to decide is whether Devlin and or Burns is guilty or innocent of that |
| 2:10.3 | offence. |
| 2:13.0 | Referring to George McLaughlin, the 19-year-old prison informant who had admitted to having |
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