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Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy Joseph KC

1 review

gabe_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

The book is definitely carried by how interesting all the cases are, along with it being very easy to read. The cases were certainly picked well. The ones I liked most were the reckless driving

with gang elements

, the soldier with PTSD, and the abused wife

who killed her husband

. I'm not sure how I feel about some of her opinions that came through, she was largely very compassionate, but had what I felt were some fatalistic views on certain people. It was still interesting seeing the perspective of an Old Bailey judge, who must be non-biased while being exposed to so much of this on a daily basis.

I thought the explanations of the details of law and how cases were decided were interesting, and could have done with more of that! I also thought the way the dialogue of the cases was brought to life was well done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Car accident, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Suicide, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abandonment

Much of the content that may be distressing is discussed in quite a clinical, detached way of the courtroom. It has detail about things like gunshot residue. It's not gratuitous or salacious. There is a more narrative view of each case at the start, though this doesn't generally go into much detail.