Lawburrows
Lawburrows
Andrew Tickell
The Trial of Oscar Slater
27 minutes Posted Apr 25, 2020 at 12:47 pm.
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The trial of Oscar Slater is one of Scotland's most notorious miscarriage of justice cases, based on prosecution misconduct, police tunnel-vision, bad eyewitness evidence, and public prejudice against the accused. This podcast looks at some of the history of the case.

Arthur Conan Doyle's interesting pamphlet on the case can be read here:

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks12/1202651h.html