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The Mount Stewart Murder

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In 1866 Perthshire, tenant farmer William Henderson returns home from market to find his sister Janet murdered with an axe in the farmhouse he had left in her care. Suspicion quickly falls on hired labourer James Crichton, whose curious knowledge of evidence, conspicuously clean clothes, and eventual overheard confession create a compelling but ultimately unprovable case. At trial in 1867 the jury returns a not proven verdict in eleven minutes, Crichton walks free, and William Henderson spends the rest of his life broken by the outcome — officially the second victim of the Mount Stewart murder.

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A measured Perthshire murder story where the verdict ends the case but not the unease.

Set in Perthshire, this episode follows Janet Rogers' killing through discovery, alarm, and the road to a not proven verdict. William Henderson's fear, the neighbors' reactions, and the courtroom aftermath are handled with restraint, which keeps the human cost in view without…

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