The Wronged Man: A Miscarriage of Justice
Denise Beddows
Works of: Non-fiction
On a hot July afternoon in 1933, Frances Levin, 61, was beaten to death in her own home in Manchester’s then affluent Cheetham Hill. Following the biggest manhunt Manchester’s CID had ever undertaken, William Burtoft, a homeless meths addict, was convicted and hanged for her murder in what was said to have been a robbery gone wrong.
In 2018, the BBC TV programme Murder, Mystery and My Family re-visited the case and concluded that the confession was coerced and the verdict was unsound, but made no finding as to who really did kill Frances.
In The Wronged Man, the author uncovers police corruption, malpractice and suppression of crucial evidence, and reveals a more likely motive and an obvious suspect who was never even questioned. This was, without a doubt, a tragic miscarriage of justice.
Other books by Denise Beddows
The Nevsky Prospekt Affair
The Kohat Connection
The Forgotten Forty-Four: Victims and Survivors of America’s First Serial Sex Killer
Shearwater Point
A Long Road to Revenge
When the Grey Wolf Sings
The Hunt for WOTAK
Odd Man Out – A Motiveless Murder?
The Cheetham Hill Murder – A Convenient Killing?
Bulstrode – Splendour and Scandals of a Buckinghamshire Mansion
Buckinghamshire Spies and Subversives
The Famous and Infamous of The Chalfonts & District
Running with Crows – The Life and Death of a Black and Tan
A Wistful Eye – The Tragedy of a Titanic Shipwright
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