Journalist Pat Booth's book, The fate of Arthur Thomas: trial by ambush, focused on miscarriages of justice associated with the evidence presented at Arthur Allan Thomas's trial. Booth argued that a cartridge case, fired from Thomas's gun and found at the murder scene, had been planted by the police team investigating the case and had no connection to the bullets used to kill Thomas's neighbours, Jeanette and Harvey Crewe. The publication in 1975 of this book, which brought together material Booth had accumulated while covering the trial, was a key element of the campaign to challenge Thomas’s conviction for the double murder.
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Reference: Pat Booth, The fate of Arthur Thomas: trial by ambush. Auckland: South Pacific, 1975.
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