Lawrence Archer, Fiona Bawdon

Gebundenes Buch

Ricin!: The Inside Story of the Terror Plot That Never Was

Beschreibung

In January 2003, the British media splashed the news that anti-terror police had disrupted an Al-Qaeda cell, poised to unleash the deadly poison ricin on the capital. Police had reportedly found traces of ricin, as well as a panoply of bomb and poison-making equipment in the cell's 'factory of death' - a shabby flat in north London. But when the 'ricin plot' came to trial at the Old Bailey, a very different story emerged: there was no ricin and no plot. For the first time, this book tells the inside story of what really happened.

Autor

Lawrence Archer is the telecoms engineer who was foreman of the jury at the 2005 Ricin trial. He has followed the lives of the acquitted defendants ever since, including attending their High Court and immigration appeal hearings. Fiona Bawdon is a freelance journalist. She writes on criminal and civil justice issues for the national and specialist legal press. Michael Mansfield QC is an English barrister specialising in criminal defence work. He has often worked to overturn miscarriages of justice, including the wrongful imprisonment of both the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six. He represented one of the acquitted defendants in the Ricin trial.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780745329284
• ISBN-10: 0745329284
• Artikelnr.: 29923062