- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Pennant Books Ltd; revised and updated edition (27 May 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906015600
- ISBN-13: 978-1906015602
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 737,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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... Of all the thousands of Crimewatch appeals I presented, his was the only case that made me worry we had contributed towards an injustice ... this was a classic story of the wrong man trapped in a horrible web of intrigue. Stagg really was innocent as charged. --NICK ROSS, from his Introduction
[Colin Stagg's Innocent as Charged] is a work of desperately sad storytelling, with a voice that grips you like the skinny hand of the ancient mariner. --JOHN GRIEVE, former Director of Intelligence for the Metropolitan Police - The Guardian
[Colin Stagg's Innocent as Charged] is a work of desperately sad storytelling, with a voice that grips you like the skinny hand of the ancient mariner. --JOHN GRIEVE, former Director of Intelligence for the Metropolitan Police - The Guardian
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When Pennant Books published the original hardback edition of Innocent as Charged in 2007, we ran ahead of the times. Linked in their minds for 15 years with the murder of young mother Rachel Nickell, the public had not yet exonerated Colin Stagg. It was in July 1992 that 23-year-old Rachel was horrifically stabbed and sexually assaulted in broad daylight on Wimbledon Common. In 1994, Stagg, the only man charged with the crime for a decade and a half, was cleared of the killing after 13 months in prison. Yet his name was seared on the public consciousness as that of 'the man who got away with murder'. For years Stagg suffered verbal abuse, physical attacks, hate mail and death threats. He led the life of a pariah, suffering at the hands of a lynch-mob mentality that could not accept his innocence. But now, finally, the historic tide has turned . . . Following the conviction of serial killer/rapist Robert Napper for Rachel's murder in December 2008, Stagg was awarded a record £703,000 in compensation from the Home Office. It inflamed his detractors in the press, but was partly the result of the police refusing to eliminate him from enquiries - for in 2001 they declined to test his DNA against samples from Rachel's clothing, the very technique that would eventually trap Napper. But final vindication came in late 2009, with a letter from Rachel's bereaved partner, Andre Hanscombe: 'Dear Colin / I am writing to say that I am sorry for the ordeal that you have endured ... I know now that you were, and are, an innocent man ...' In this revised and updated edition, Stagg tells of the sudden change of fortune that has led those who once threatened him in the street to flash thumbs-up signs ...
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This review is from: Innocent As Charged! (Paperback)
Loved this book. It is the updated version of his first book, Pariah, which I havn't read.
Read most of it in one night. Even after everything Colin Stagg endured from the police and public he doesn't come across as bitter at all. Any feelings he has towards certain individuals he voices very honestly, as he does with all aspects of his life at the time of the Nickell murder. He seems like a genuinely nice bloke that now just wants to get on with his life, and rightly so. Good luck for the future.
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