Complex sentence: Ball p.18 The case aroused a degree of public interest which is not easy now to explain, since the accused was neither rich nor socially prominent, and the trial was treated with great seriousness by the Crown, again for reasons which are no longer clear.
Split into simpler sentences: Ball p.18 The case aroused a degree of public interest which is not easy now to explain, since the accused was neither rich nor socially prominent. The trial was treated with great seriousness by the Crown, again for reasons which are no longer clear.