Edith Thompson: CCRC told to revisit hanged woman's pardon case
QuoteA panel has been told to re-examine the case of a woman hanged for the murder of her husband, two months after it rejected a bid for her to be pardoned.
Edith Thompson, 29, was found guilty of murdering Percy Thompson after he was fatally stabbed by her lover Frederick Bywaters in east London in 1922.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) had ruled the case did not meet the requirements for a royal pardon.
It has been told to return to the case after legal proceedings were launched.
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