Publisher's Synopsis
On 17th June 1970, in a small farming district south of Auckland, Harvey and Jeannette Crewe were shot and killed in the lounge of their home. Five months later a neighbour, Arthur Allan Thomas, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. A retrial in 1972 ended with another guilty verdict.;David Yallop, author of "To Encourage the Others" and "The Day the Laughter Stopped", two books which dealt with miscarriages of justice, spent over a year in New Zealand investigating the case and became convinced of Thomas's innocence. In an open letter to New Zealand's Prime Minister, he demanded Thomas's release on the grounds that he "has not been found guilty beyond reasonable doubt. He has in fact been found innocent beyond reasonable doubt." In 1978, as a direct result of Yallop's intercession and the publication of this book, Thomas was granted a royal pardon and, in 1980, awarded nearly $1 billion in compensation for the nine years he had served behind bars.
