Oscar Slater
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Oscar Joseph Slater was the victim of a notorious miscarriage of justice in Scotland. Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death, he was freed after almost two decades of hard labour at Scotla
Oscar Slater 1908
Oscar Slater's hammer
The victim's dining room and the site of the murder
Woodlands. 49 West Princes Street. Marion Gilchrist's house. 2020.
HM Prison Peterhead
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HMP Peterhead was a prison in Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, operating from 1888 to 2013. Since June 2016, the former grounds operate as the Peterhead Prison Museum.
Oscar Slater
…miscarriage of justice in Scotland. Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death, he was freed after almost two decades of hard labour at Scotland’s HM Prison Peterhead through the efforts of multiple journalists, lawyers, and writers, including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Slater was born Oskar Josef…
Peterhead Prison 07
Actors on the roof of the prison during the filming of Redcon-1 around 2018