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And if the men's prison letters (including from the condemned cells) sometimes make you laugh, they will make you weep far longer. Following his masterful expose of injustice in the Cameo Cinema murder case in 1950s Liverpool described in his book The Cameo Conspiracy, George Skelly now reveals a second police conspiracy-two years later in the same city involving the same senior detective-which this time led to the execution of two young men. In 2011, faced with countless proven contradictions and errors plus substantial previously undisclosed evidence, the Criminal Cases Review Commission unbelievably side-stepped the opportunity to refer this gross injustice to the Court of Appeal. So until justice is finally done, Teddy Devlin and Alfie Burns still lie together beneath the staff car park at Walton Prison, their only trace a tiny plaque numbered 55. 'A very powerful case of a miscarriage of justice': Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith PC QC As featured in the Liverpool Echo. 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George Kelly was hanged in 1949 for shooting dead two men: the manager of the Cameo Cinema, Wavertree and his assistant. Undeniably from the wrong side of the tracks and involved in the black markets, rackets and illegal drinking dens of the post-Second-World-War era, Kelly and his co-accused Charles Connolly (who went to prison for ten years) found themselves expertly 'fitted-up' because they were deemed to be riff-raff in what for them both became a Kafkaesque nightmare.  In this, the definitive book on the Cameo case, the author recounts these events with the eye of someone who has undertaken prodigious research and has a passion against injustice.  The result is not simply a superbly worked account of how due process and justice faltered but a snapshot of social and legal history in which the parallel worlds of the Underworld and Establishment collide in the courtroom and official decision-making.  The Cameo murder case can also be seen as one of the most important of the 20th century. Although it took 50 years for the injustice to be admitted, along with the case of Timothy Evans and others incomprehensible to the modern-day eye, it ranks as a turning point in understanding the depths of wickedness or wilful blindness to which certain people or their organizations can descend to in the absence of decency, integrity and adequate safeguards.  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In this powerful, meticulously-researched account the author painstakingly exposes the evil police conspiracy which sent Kelly to the gallows and Connolly to ten years' imprisonment. He recounts how the men were framed by corrupt investigators and condemned by an amoral legal establishment, making it a terrible indictment of human wickedness by those supposed to uphold the law. This revised third edition of the definitive book on the case not only reveals a diabolical miscarriage of justice but comprehensively describes the arrests, trials and execution as well as Kelly's successful posthumous appeal. 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