In March 1950, a twenty-five-year-old Welshman, Timothy John Evans, was hanged at Pentonville Prison for the murder of his infant daughter Geraldine. Evans had voluntarily confessed to her killing, and to that of his young, pregnant wife Beryl, in November of the previous year - both by strangulation. Their bodies had been found concealed in an outbuilding of the house in which they had all lived. A jury at the Old Bailey had taken just forty minutes to reach its unanimous verdict and the destruction of the whole young family had spanned but four months. READ MORE…