Joseph Cooksey Jackson KC (12 January 1879 – 26 April 1938[1]) was a British barrister and Conservative politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe from 1931 to 1935.[1]
He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster[2][3] and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1900.[2] He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1908, and was called to the bar in 1909.[2]
He defended the boxer Jackie Brown on an assault charge in 1934, with Edgar Lustgarten as his junior.[4] In 1936 he successfully prosecuted Dr Buck Ruxton, in the infamous killings known as the Jigsaw Murders.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "House of Commons". Leigh Rayment. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c "Jackson, Joseph Cooksey (JK897JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Craddock, Jeremy (28 May 2021). The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-9767-6.
- ^ "Boxer who bit a man's ear". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
- ^ Craddock, Jeremy (28 May 2021). The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-9767-6.
External links
editFurther reading
edit- Blundell, R. H.; Wilson; G. Haswell (1950). James H. Hodge (ed.). Famous Trials III. Middlesex: Penguin Books. pp. 162–236. ISBN 978-0-140-00787-9.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Craddock, Jeremy (2022) [2021]. The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics. Cheltenham: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-750-99767-6.
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