Madeleine Smith on Trial: A Glasgow Murder and the Young Woman Too Respectable to Convict, Paperback - Brian Jenkins

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In July 1962 Brian Smith joined British European Airways (BEA) as a steward. In 1991 he retired as a Senior Training Captain with British Airways. ...

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In a broken Britain in which politics has failed, the law is our one defence. But it is under severe threat from a rising tide of populism.