Guenther Fritz Erwin Podola was a German-born petty thief, and the last man to be hanged in the UK for killing a police officer. His trial was notable and controversial because of his defence of amnesia and the use of expert witnesses to determine whether his illness was real.
Podola in 1959
Sir Frederick Horace Lawton was a British barrister and judge who served as Lord Justice of Appeal from 1972 to 1986.
The Old Bailey remains the venue of the most high-profile trials locally and nationally
Royal Courts of Justice house the Court of Appeal and within its Victorian, neo-gothic, walls housed most of London's senior civil courts in this era