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IT was in the manifesto of most of the political parties at the recent Holyrood election that a review should be held into a unique facet of Scots…

THE current controversy over the Not Proven verdict which is unique to the Scottish criminal justice system has rarely been placed in its historical context. That cannot be done in just one column, but I will attempt to do so over the next three weeks during which I will return to a particular case which continues to fascinate me – that of Madeleine Smith who I have now concluded got away with murder when the jury found the charge of poisoning her French lover not proven. That case in 1857 is usually claimed as the biggest not proven controversy of them all, but today and next week I am...

The Most Infamous Murders Of The Victorian Era Shutterstock By Debra Kelly/Jan. 28, 2021 2:46 pm EDT Murder is a strange thing. It's an act that to many is absolutely unthinkable, but at the same time fascinating. The idea that a human being — sometimes, a perfectly ordinary-seeming person — could take the life of another is so strange and yet so common.  And this is nothing new — people have, of course, been killing other people since they figured out how to swing a club. Fast forward to the Victorian era, and killers were still killing — they'd just gotten much mor...