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So they're afraid that Tim might be able to argue that Beryl goaded him into killing her.

This apparently was some sort of successful strategy at the time.

1940s, wild times, y'all, that the victim can goad you into murdering them.

So he was only charged with killing the baby, Geraldine, so as to avoid any problems with Beryl having, this is like the definition of victim blaming.

Oh, man, she was so young.

Yeah.

What I like about the Old Bailey is, is it a whorehouse?

Is it a bar?

Could be both.

Who knows?

So obviously among those four confessions, Christy's implicated two of them in a very serious way.

Remember the story about Christy with the abortion help?

Well, Christy gets on the stand and he denied the claims that he had ever offered Beryl an abortion.

And he provided detailed accounts of the frequent fights between Tim and Beryl.

Christie came off well to the jury.

He was thought to be pleasant and thoughtful, and although the defense tried to bring up his prior criminal past, it had been 17 years since his last conviction, and the jury instead viewed him as someone who had impressively turned his life around.

So we'll talk about that more later.

Evans claimed to be innocent throughout this entire trial.

With Christy up there talking about what a terrible guy he was when he drank, these horrible, violent fights he would hear, Evans maintained his innocence.

But the jury wasn't convinced.