Assume Nothing - Did the Right Man Hang? Introduction

Did the Right Man Hang? Introduction

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1933: Harold Courtney is convicted of murdering a young woman, assumed to be pregnant with his child. He is hanged and buried in the grounds of Belfast’s Crumlin Road Gaol. Nearly 90 years later, journalist Gordon Adair investigates a story he was told as a young reporter, about a conspiracy. Turning up files that have been closed for decades he asks, did the right man hang?

Published on Friday, 13th November 2020.

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