Madeleine Smith may have poisoned Pierre Emile L'Angelier, but the prosecution had failed to make the case. Or perhaps the jury just didn’t like the victim, whom the defence had painted as a ...

Ann an 1857, as deidh cùis lagh ainmeil, dh'fhàg Madeleine Smith an àrd chùrt ann an Dun Èideann na boireannach saor. Cha deach a chasaid murt na h-aghaidh a dhearbhadh, ged a bha h-uile ...

On 9 July 1857, one of Victorian Scotland’s most notorious murder trials ended in controversy as a verdict of ‘not proven’ saw suspected poisoner Madeleine Smith walk out of court a free woman.