Richard Bacon

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772 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

Richard Bacon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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There was a woman called Ruth Neve who was, she was accused of killing her son.

And he got her off.

And I remember when he got her off, he came home.

And when you're a defence lawyer, you're quite pleased.

I was following the case thinking, Del, I think you've got off a murderer who killed her own son.

And he came home and he's in a good mood and he was celebrating because that was his job.

And I remember thinking, this is a weird job dad's got.

I think he's got a child murderer off.

Years later, through DNA evidence, it turned out that she was innocent.

And he was right all along.

But he's had a hand in some really interesting criminal defense cases, including the wheelie bin murderer.

Don't go thinking the wheelie bin murderer killed wheelie bins.

He killed people and put them in wheelie bins.

It's important, Elizabeth.

It's an important distinction.

Yeah, but he wasn't Ian Huntley's main defence.

He was just brought in.

He knew very well, I think, the QC who was representing Ian Huntley.

He was brought into the case and was there when a lot of it was happening.

But I was aware, we're from a town called Mansfield, which is...

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