the old bailey

Victims of a cruel prejudice: the last two men to be executed for sodomy in England

10 February 2024 9:00 am

Chris Bryant describes in painful detail how James Pratt and John Smith, working-class men from the Midlands, fell foul of the ‘bloodthirsty English justice system’ in 1835

How the net finally closed on the Nazi henchman Andrei Sawoniuk

22 January 2022 9:00 am

Fedor Zan was 18, working on the river closing sluices, when, on a winter afternoon in 1942, he saw his…