(207) Justice, Majors and inaccurate spelling of (and from) Portia
When it was announced in October 2003 that Major Charles Ingram had been found guilty of a second offence, at Bournemouth Crown Court, I feared for him, and, thinking that this new conviction could activate his suspended sentence which he had received in March, I sent out articles in his defence to various journals and also to individuals concerned with miscarriages of justice, e.g. Michael Mansfield Q.C. But the only responses were from journalist Bob Woffinden and a Mr Tom Watkins, who ran an internet site called Portia.org. Accordingly, it was there that the first draft of my essay was posted. On the BBC1 Real Story programme of November 24th 2003, which was about the Ingram family, they misspelled the name of the Major´s daughter as ´Porcia Ingram´. On March 2nd 2004 I spoke with people who had a holiday home in our street: Bill and Ruth Smith of Cookley in the West Midlands. I said that our cat, KGB , was sick, but did not mention that a boy who had been living i...