Derek Bentley was a 19-year-old man with the mental age of an 11-year-old boy – but that didn’t stop the British justice system from exacting its full retribution upon him for the November 1952 murder in Croydon of PC Sidney Miles.
It’s 70 years since Bentley went to the gallows for a murder he did not commit. An infamous miscarriage of justice, the case remains as shocking today as it was all those years ago. Marking the anniversary, True Detective begins a three-part, hard-hitting series about this most shameful of cases…