"Buckinghamshire in Crisis - A County Rotten to the Core" by Martin Taylor is published

A revealing and true historical account of a family murder and the injustice that ensued. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) July 13, 2016 - "Buckinghamshire in Crisis - A County Rotten to the Core" by Martin Taylor, About the Book: Ann Reville was in the final stages of her third pregnancy, when she was murdered in the family's butchers shop, in Slough, in 1881. Her killer was never charged, but for more than 130 years her death certificate has said she was murdered by the Reville's assistant, Alfred Payne, who was acquitted by a jury at Aylesbury Assizes. Setting out to try and understand this contradiction the author's research revealed more layers than could have been imagined, and shone light on matters of justice that still reverberate today. This is history as it was, not as it has been portrayed.

Excerpt from the Book:
"Sir Isaac Newton said "I stood on the shoulders of giants", and if that was good enough for him, it's good enough for me too.
What I have written arose out of two decades of research my father carried out into his family tree. He did this entirely at his own expense, and freely passed on what he'd uncovered to whoever was interested.
Along the way he had obtained the death certificate of his maternal great-grandmother, Ann Reville, which gives her cause of death as "Wilfully murdered by Alfred Augustus Payne". Who, in April 1881, was found 'not guilty' at Aylesbury Assizes.
I have found several accounts of Ann's murder in the public domain, but note of them ask the question "How was a coroner so sure that Alfred Payne had murdered Ann, whilst a jury was equally sure that he hadn't?"
Instead they opted to review the evidence from 1881 and draw conclusions on the jury's verdict over a century later.
Whether Alfred Payne had killed my great-great-grandmother or not was incidental to my early research about her death. I wanted to understand how a coroner and jury could believe two realities which simply couldn't have co-existed in 1881.
Very early on in this research I began to realising that I was opening some cupboards, containing some interesting skeletons, which some people today would rather had remained undisturbed.
And the more skeletons I uncovered the more skeletons I found were there waiting to be discovered. Rather like opening a Russian doll, and finding another one inside it.

"Buckinghamshire in Crisis - A County Rotten to the Core" is available in hardback from Amazon.co.uk at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buckinghamshire-Crisis-County-Rotten-Core/dp/1781489939

It is also available to from Amazon.com at:
https://www.amazon.com/Buckinghamshire-Crisis-County-Rotten-Core/dp/1781489939

Press/Media Contact Details:
Grosvenor House Publishing
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