Swaggering highwaymen, cut-throats and footpads, an eighty year-old traitor, a murdering laundress, a hero escapologist, a Thief-Taker and minor pickpockets: a court of villains bursting with crime.  We track and follow them to correction or perdition, to clemency or to the Three Legged Mare.

First trial at New Scotland Yard, 2002; second parole,  De Montfort University (as part of the inaugural “Distinguished Lecture” series, 2006)

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