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In 1972, aged only 25, Judith Ward was jailed for life for killing 12 people in an army coach-bombing on the M62. It was 18 years before the evidence which proved her innocence - yet was suppressed at her trial - came to light. She was finally released on appeal in 1992, aged 43. Justice Glidewell concluded her appeal with the phrase "Our law does not allow a conviction to be secured by ambush". After five days and nights of relentless police interrogation, it was just such an arrest and conviction which was to keep Judith Ward for 15 years in the High Security Wing of Durham Prison, a Category A prisoner, allowed only occasional visits, few letters, and locked in her cell for long hours at a stretch. Judith tells the story of her arrest, her several attempted suicides, and her fight to keep sane during one of the harshest of prison lives.
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- PublisherTrafalgar Square
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0091778204
- ISBN 13 9780091778200
- BindingVHS Tape
- Edition number1
- Number of pages184
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AMBUSHED My Story
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Book Description Softcover / Paperback. Condition: Fine. First edition. Softcover. Twenty-five when she was arrested in 1974 for the murder of 12 people in an army coach bombing, the author was imprisoned for 18yrs. She was forty-three when found innocent and released on appeal in May 1992. The author spent 15yrs as a Category A prisoner in Durham's grim and claustrophobic High Security Wing. In all it was to take 18yrs before the evidence which proved her innocence - yet was not disclosed at her trial - finally came to light. In this vivid, often harrowing account, she tells of the circumstances of her arrest, her several attempts at suicide once convicted, and her fight to keep sane during one of the harshest of prison sentences. A stark insight into the pettiness, brutality and, often black, humour of life in a women's prison. It is also a passionate indictment of our criminal system. An extraordinary survival story. With Index. 184pp. trade size softcover. V.v. lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers. Seller Inventory # 18803
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Ambushed: My Story
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 184 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Few Pen Marks Inside Back Cover. Seller Inventory # 180976
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