Spectator's Notebook
WITH the announcement that the inquiry into the Evans case is to be in public one more victory is chalked and to those who have fought so patiently and so long to see that justice is done; if not to a dead man, at least to his family. Sir Frank Soskice, the Home Secretary, by reversing his earlier view, has succeeded in making the right decision in such a weak way that he has actually lost political credit. Mr. Justice Brabin's inquiry should close the case. It is possible, just possible, that both Evans and Christie were guilty of murder; Christie we now know was a mass murderer and was also chief witness for the prosecution. It seems much more probable that an , innocent man was hanged. The Spectator has always cam- paigned for a full public inquiry. I have read again the original pamphlet, The Case of Timothy Evans: An Appeal to Reason, by Lord Altrincham (John Grigg) and Ian Gilmour. We still have some copies at 2s. including postage.
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