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Podcast: Crime Analyst
Episode: Joanna Simpson: A Miscarriage of Justice, Part 1
Description: Laura interviews Diana Parkes, Joanna’s mother and Hetti Nanton, Joanna’s best friend and chair of the national domestic violence charity, Refuge.Joanna Simpson was brutally killed on October 31, 2010, by her ex-husband Robert Brown a British Airways pilot, one week before their divorce would be finalized at the High Court. Brown dropped the two children home. He took a claw hammer with him and bludgeoned Jo to death, hitting her at least 14 times.At Brown’s trial, the court heard how he bundled the children into his car and wrapped Jo’s body in plastic...