By Glynis Cooper
ISBN-10: 1783035498
ISBN-13: 9781783035496
In an exceptional significant other quantity to her best-selling e-book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey, Glynis Cooper turns her awareness to the darkish part of the prior in Jersey. and there's no scarcity of surprising tales to inform - crimes of ardour and melancholy, situations of homicide, deceit and natural malice, opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of wickedness which are as demanding this present day as they have been of their personal time. For this trip right into a overlooked region in Jersey's background she has chosen a revealing sequence of circumstances courting from the medieval interval to the current day. She remembers the torture and execution of 4 girl witches, the murderous end result of a conflict with Norman sheep stealers, a girl who married her husband's assassin and wreckers who preyed on Spanish treasure ships. And one of the sensational episodes from more moderen instances are a schoolboy who raped a girl, the suicide of a jilted bride, the homicide of French political refugees, a French basic who was...
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The column is topped by a stone toad (crapaud) which has been the symbol and nickname of Jersey folk for centuries. This derives from the small toads which used to inhabit the marshes and sand dunes of the area. The former habitat of these little creatures has now almost disappeared under modern development and their numbers have declined dramatically. The column is dramatic and stands at Charing Cross in St Helier. St Helier today is a large bustling port and has changed almost beyond recognition from the small harbour town that Jersey’s ancestors, and even nineteenth-century folk, would have known.
The author CHAPTER 1 A Charge So Horrid 1299 Renaud ‘despoiled’ her on a number of occasions to ‘teach her a lesson’ ... when she was finally released she was bleeding and hysterical. If there is such a thing as a ‘designer’ crime, then in the late thirteenth century it appeared to be the abduction and rape of Jersey women. The Jersey Assize Roll of 1299—1300 records an astonishing number. The perpetrators were rarely brought to justice because of a legal loophole and they became quite outrageous in their audacity.
The one invasion which marked Jersey more than any other throughout its history was not French. It was the German Occupation of 1940—45. The Occupation was mostly not as physically brutal to the Islands as earlier invasions but it was a tremendous psychic shock to the islanders who were unable to defend themselves and simply had to endure whatever the Germans dished out. Hitler had declared that the Occupation should be ‘a model Occupation’ so that everyone could see that life under the German flag would be fine when Germany, as he misguidedly believed, ruled the world.