The Wrongly Executed Airman: The RAF's Darkest Hour

Utilizing forensic evidence that was ignored by the police, and documents that have never before been released to the public, Alan Strachan has produced the horrific account of a man who was wrongfully executed for rape and murder — even though it is quite possible that there was neither a rape nor a murder.

Both were capital crimes in Canada in 1942 and the accused was British — a 21-year-old Royal Air Force sergeant whose wife and one-year-old daughter remained in Peterborough when he was ...