Fitted up
Subtitle: the Mitcham Co-op murder and the fight to prove my innocence
By: George Thatcher
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780750962087
Subjects: Judicial error; Murder; Investigation; LAW; Criminal Law; General; English; Languages & Literatures; English Literature
Description: Fitted Up is the remarkable story of George Thatcher, who spent two weeks in a death cell awaiting the noose for murder following the Mitcham Co-op robbery in 1962. He was later reprieved, but would still serve twenty years for a crime he did not commit. This is a story of how the corrupt police ''fitted him up'' for the crime; a story of a life of poverty in the 1930s and ''40s as a child and young man - a life of petty crime in London''s bleak 1950s underworld reminiscent of all those black and white gangster films of the period. Thatcher was a non-violent ''peter'' man, a safe-blower, famou.
Notes: English.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword by Anthony May; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Afterword by Val Thatcher; Plate Section; Copyright