We Are Not Manslaughterers: The Epsom Riot and the Murder of Station Sergeant Thomas Green
In genteel Epsom, Surrey in the summer of 1919 a score of semi-rural police officers fought a rioting mob of 400 Canadian soldiers in a battle of Rorke's Drift proportions. At the end of it the dependable Station Sergeant Thomas Green lay dead, bludgeoned by a bar torn from the police cells.

Green is the only policeman to be murdered in his own police station on the mainland ever and was one of only two killed by rioters in the 20th century - the other being PC Blakelock.

Yet media coverage was subdued and the path to justice tightly managed. Indeed no person was charged with murder. A handful of Canadians were quietly convicted of riot and were back home for Christmas.

We Are Not Manslaughterers lifts the lid on why the case is practically unknown and how political and international considerations deprived Thomas Green of justice. David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill were personally involved in engineering their desired outcomes. Fraying colonial bonds necessitated a manipulation of the system nationally and a backdrop of STDs among the convalescent soldiers triggered a cover-up locally.

Martin Knight is the author of George Best's final autobiography as well as several other sports, culture and fiction books.
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We Are Not Manslaughterers: The Epsom Riot and the Murder of Station Sergeant Thomas Green
In genteel Epsom, Surrey in the summer of 1919 a score of semi-rural police officers fought a rioting mob of 400 Canadian soldiers in a battle of Rorke's Drift proportions. At the end of it the dependable Station Sergeant Thomas Green lay dead, bludgeoned by a bar torn from the police cells.

Green is the only policeman to be murdered in his own police station on the mainland ever and was one of only two killed by rioters in the 20th century - the other being PC Blakelock.

Yet media coverage was subdued and the path to justice tightly managed. Indeed no person was charged with murder. A handful of Canadians were quietly convicted of riot and were back home for Christmas.

We Are Not Manslaughterers lifts the lid on why the case is practically unknown and how political and international considerations deprived Thomas Green of justice. David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill were personally involved in engineering their desired outcomes. Fraying colonial bonds necessitated a manipulation of the system nationally and a backdrop of STDs among the convalescent soldiers triggered a cover-up locally.

Martin Knight is the author of George Best's final autobiography as well as several other sports, culture and fiction books.
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We Are Not Manslaughterers: The Epsom Riot and the Murder of Station Sergeant Thomas Green

We Are Not Manslaughterers: The Epsom Riot and the Murder of Station Sergeant Thomas Green

by Martin Knight
We Are Not Manslaughterers: The Epsom Riot and the Murder of Station Sergeant Thomas Green

We Are Not Manslaughterers: The Epsom Riot and the Murder of Station Sergeant Thomas Green

by Martin Knight

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In genteel Epsom, Surrey in the summer of 1919 a score of semi-rural police officers fought a rioting mob of 400 Canadian soldiers in a battle of Rorke's Drift proportions. At the end of it the dependable Station Sergeant Thomas Green lay dead, bludgeoned by a bar torn from the police cells.

Green is the only policeman to be murdered in his own police station on the mainland ever and was one of only two killed by rioters in the 20th century - the other being PC Blakelock.

Yet media coverage was subdued and the path to justice tightly managed. Indeed no person was charged with murder. A handful of Canadians were quietly convicted of riot and were back home for Christmas.

We Are Not Manslaughterers lifts the lid on why the case is practically unknown and how political and international considerations deprived Thomas Green of justice. David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill were personally involved in engineering their desired outcomes. Fraying colonial bonds necessitated a manipulation of the system nationally and a backdrop of STDs among the convalescent soldiers triggered a cover-up locally.

Martin Knight is the author of George Best's final autobiography as well as several other sports, culture and fiction books.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781909270701
Publisher: London Books
Publication date: 02/12/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Martin Knight is the author of several books including collaborations with footballers George Best, Peter Osgood and Charlie Cooke and Dave Mackay. He is co-author of terrace culture classic Hoolifan, as well as accounts of the lives of a bare-knuckle gypsy fighter and a notorious international drug smuggler. Novels include Common People and Battersea Girl. In 2009 his book Gypsy Joe was selected as Observer Sports Book of the Year.
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