Murder, Mystery and My Family Series 1 Revisits

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Top criminal barristers Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass look back at their investigation of a rural case of murder and moonlighting in Ireland in 1894.County Cork, Ireland, 1894. A man was dragged from his bed and beaten by two men. With serious injuries and a gunshot wound to his arm, he was discovered early the next morning. His neighbour called for a priest and a doctor, but it was too late - James Donovan had been murdered.With little evidence, the police rounded up several known criminals from the surrounding area, and John Twiss from County Kerry, over 16 miles from the murder scene, was tried and convicted. He was hanged in February 1895, protesting his innocence.More than 120 years later, John's relatives, Helen and Dennis, became determined to prove his innocence and enlisted the help of Sasha and Jeremy to reinvestigate the case.Why was Twiss arrested within days of the murder, only for the police to then spend months investigating the case?