Brett
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And not only that, you have evidence of guilt in his behavior.
He flees the area.
That's one of the big things that we look at.
It's the kind of evidence that you typically would...
Point two, even in a trial today, fleeing the area is consciousness of guilt, something you'd point to.
You have his multiple confessions, his changing story.
You have the fact that his third confession seems to fit what physical evidence you do have.
It is obvious that she's been beaten.
He says that he beat her.
He's an abusive guy.
He explains exactly how he did it.
He explains exactly how he killed his daughter.
right?
All this seems to come together into a rock solid case.
It's not surprising that it took the jury only 40 minutes to reach a guilty verdict.
And let me tell you, unlike now, justice moved swiftly in 1950s England, right?
So this, he's convicted on January 11th, maybe January 14th.
I'm not sure if the trial began on January 11th or it ended on January 11th, but either way, he's convicted in mid-January 1950.
On March 9th,
Two months later, 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for his crimes.