Barrister rewrites memoirs over ‘mistaken murder’

ONE of Britain’s top barristers had to rewrite his memoirs after accusing a former client of a series of murders he did not commit.

Michael Mansfield QC, whose high-profile cases include the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Jean Charles de Menezes, said his accusation John Bowden was involved in a series of murders which involved “carving up homosexuals and winos” was a “mistaken recollection”.

The error was made in the hardback edition of Mansfield’s Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer and will be corrected for the paperback version which is out next month, publisher Bloomsbury said.