In his 1971 book To Encourage the Others (the title is an acknowledged allusion to Voltaire's Candide), David Yallop documented Bentley's psychiatric problems, as well as what he believed were inconsistencies in the police and forensic evidence and the conduct of the trial. Craig was too young to hang so Bentley, an illiterate, educationally subnormal epileptic, became an establishment scapegoat. Trow criticises the police, trial judge and Bentley's legal team for inaccuracies and fudging uncomfortable issues, but the strangest thing I found was when Trow went to the Museum of Murder and had the oppotunity to take a file of papers on the case that had hitherto been denied to him.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. However, Matheson was of the opinion that whilst agreeing that Bentley was of low intelligence, he did not have epilepsy at the time of the alleged offence and he was not a "feeble-minded person" under the Mental Deficiency Acts. Bentley was originally scheduled to be hanged on 30 December 1952 but this was postponed to allow for an appeal.

He comes across as an extremely smug and arrogant man who regards some judges as incompetent bullies. This is a mother’s tale, of finding a way through the despair to remember the happiness and wonderful memories that James brought his family. His later statements to author David Yallop, which convinced Yallop that Goddard had wanted a reprieve, [9] appear to have been incorrectly quoted.

She tells of the childhood they shared, of the poverty and illness and the effect of war and death in the family. He intended to kill, he killed and he showed no remorse for doing so but Bentley had only been armed with a knife and a knuckleduster, not a gun.

Parris, an inexperienced provincial barrister, was selected to defend Christopher Craig in the 'Trial of the Century'.

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: VG+/VG+ A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition.It features the Home Secretary, David Maxwell-Fyfe, and an appearance from the trial judge, Lord Goddard. Just as Evans was actually a hard-drinking man, short on temper and long on fantasies, who left his wife to go off with her best friend and wasn't above using his fists on her, Bentley was a juvenile delinquent well before Craig came on the scene. He idolizes American Gangster movies, tries to affect a tough hood persona, but his room is filled with children's toys. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. The case was followed by a dip in public support for the death penalty, which was abolished altogether in 1964.