Oscar Slater
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish victim of a miscarriage of justice (1872-1948)
Lived 1872 to 1948 · aged 76
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Oscar Joseph Slater was the victim of a notorious miscarriage of justice in Scotland.
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About this person
Oscar Joseph Slater was the victim of a notorious miscarriage of justice in Scotland. Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death, he was freed after almost two decades of hard labour at Scotland’s HM Prison Peterhead through the efforts of multiple journalists, lawyers, and writers, including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1872 to 1948 · aged 76
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