Don Hale
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Town Without Pity: The Fight to Clear Stephen Downing of the Bakewell Murders
Don Hale, Marika Huns, Hamish McGregor
One man is trapped in a web of evil—the other is fighting to free him.
In 1973, a woman was brutally murdered in a graveyard in the picturesque market town of Bakewell. Stephen Downing, aged seventeen but with the mental age of eleven, was working as a gardener in the graveyard at the time. He was charged with the crime and served 27 years in prison. Six years ago, the editor of the local newspaper, a former professional footballer called Don Hale, began his own investigation into the murder. This is the story of how one man, fought tirelessly and…
