Edith Thompson and Alma Rattenbury

Justice: blind or blinkered?

I have written two books about the people in this photograph, which still looks so alive and was taken more than 100 years ago, in the summer of 1921. The woman in the centre is Edith Thompson, a manager at a wholesale millinery firm in the City, then aged 27. On the right is her husband Percy, 31, a City clerk. On the left is her lover, Frederick Bywat…