MRS. HULLETT was not cremated, SO the Crown was able
to exhume her body and carry out a post- . mortem; and both she and her husband died only last year. Memories about these deaths therefore must still be relatively fresh, and whatever evi- dence the prosecution possessed was likely to be reasonably accurate. Mrs. Morrell, on the other hand, died six years ago and was cremated_ Memories of her case had inevitably faded and the prosecution evidence was bound to be un- reliable, though it could hardly have been ex- pected to be as unreliable as it turned out to be. If the defence had not been able to pro- duce the nurses' notebooks Dr. Adams might have been convicted of the murder of Mrs. Morrell on the nurses' faulty evidence. Surely the correct thing for the Crown to have done was to proceed on the 1956 rather than the 1951 deaths. And if the evidence about the Hulletts was so weak that this was impossible, it should have been kept out of the proceedings from the start.
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