Kassia St Clair
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380 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Aug
Kassia St Clair’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, it's definitely premeditated.
And that probably would have been it.
He probably would have gotten away with it because, you know, Slough and London, although it's, you know, only an hour apart...
He could have taken off his coat while he was on the train, taken off his hat, and no one would have been any the wiser.
However, Slough Station in 1845 had a relatively new invention, which was the sort of an early model system of the telegraph.
Rather than arresting him on the platform, they decide to tail him.
John gets off.
He kind of wanders around.
He visits a sweet shop and then he wanders to his home, which is relatively near bank.
It's just a few streets away.
It's pretty much an open and shut case.
So the lawyer for the defense, you know, is really up against it.
Some of the evidence heard is kind of, you know, post-mortem.
They did kind of multiple rounds with different kind of testing out different poisons.
They ascertained that it was definitely prussic acid that had killed Sarah by doing this kind of the autopsy.
You have this defence barrister who's called Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and his first words to the jury in defence of his client are apple pips.
And he argues that the crime was committed on New Year's Day, or she died rather on New Year's Day in the way that he presented it.
And he argued that she'd eaten loads of apples over the festive period.
So many apples that she'd essentially overdosed on the naturally occurring prussic acid in apple pips.
But this could not be taken seriously.
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