Gangland: The Case of Bentley and Craig

By: Selwyn, Francis

On the evening of 2nd November 1952, a shot fired from a makeshift weapon on a warehouse roof in Croydon killed PC Sidney Miles. Next morning the newspaper headlines proclaimed a Chicago gun-battle in London, gangsters machine-gunning armed police over the rooftops.

But the trial of Bentley and Craig affronted common sense and alienated a generation raised in the post-war suburbia of cinemas, coffee bars and drab streets. How could Derek...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103296135X
• ISBN13: 9781032961354
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages