Quelles preuves existe-t-il de la culpabilité de Christie concernant l’affaire Evans ?
Avez-vous lu le livre de Eddowes?

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People tend to read Ludovic Kennedy’s book ’10 Rillington Place’ or the film based on Kennedy’s book and believe that this is the true version of events that surrounded Christie and Evans. In fact the book ’10 Rillington Place” is mostly fiction based on Kennedy’s speculations about the case.
If film goers and readers were to delve a little further into the murders they would quickly realize that there was a great deal of evidence to suggest that Evans was in fact guilty of the murders of his wife and child.

I have always had the uneasy feeling that Evans did murder his wife Beryl and their baby, Geraldine.

Timothy Evans has always been made out to be a slow and backward man, particularly by people who have fought the cause that he was an innocent man who was hoodwinked by Christie and wrongly hanged, but you must remember he was a working man, a lorry driver and he did do things that the normal working man would do, looking after his family, visiting pubs and the cinema; in other words he was able to function like any other working man despite his limitations.
The main reason Evans was hanged was that he convinced the police he had firstly killed Beryl and then later admitted to killing his daughter.

After the murders he left Rillington Place to go to Wales to his Aunt’s, it would have been a journey that would have taken five or six hours, which would have been ample time for him to think about the situation particularly with regards to Christie and his role in the proceedings. But what is the best he could come up with when walked into Methyr Vale police station? He confessed to killing his wife. He may have been a backward man but I don’t think he was that backward to admit to murder if he hadn’t in fact committed the murder.

When he was later confronted by police back in London and for the first time told his child had also been found dead he didn’t cry out with grief like any other father would, he immediately admitted he had also killed her because ‘her crying got on my nerves’

You’ve really got to ask the question: Why did Evans want to protect Christie and take the blame for Christie’s murderous deeds, the man who (supposedly, he claimed) had murdered his (Evans’) wife and child? I cannot think of one single solitary reason under God’s sun why he should do this.

Why did Christie confess to killing Beryl? Christie pleaded insanity at his trial and with this plea it can be simply a case of ‘the more the merrier’, but he did not admit to killing baby Geraldine because although he enjoyed killing women, and freely admitted this, even he would not admit to stooping so low as to kill a helpless child.

Did Christie know Evans had murdered his family? We’ll never know but it is likely that he did know of the murders and perhaps told Evans he would get rid of the bodies for him and advised him to get a way for a while.

I read a book a short time ago by author John Eddowes entitled bluntly “The Two Killers Of Rillington Place”. Eddowes delves into great depths of the case and puts forward quite irrefutable evidence that Evans was in fact guilty of the murders. Unfortunately the book is out of print and has become very collectable with an original first edition selling for over £50.00 a copy. If you can get hold of a later edition I would certainly read it.

The film ’10 Rillington Place didn’t always stick to the truth: It strongly intimated that Christie killed the baby; showing him, on hearing the baby’s cry picking up a man’s tie and having a look of evil intent in his eyes. In fact Christie never admitting to killing Geraldine and was never found guilty for that crime. Another scene shows Evans in a pub with of a group of men who were obviously laughing at him. This was a fictional scene only put in to emphasize that Evans was a tall story teller.

Another fallacy that has built up over the years is that the police who conducted the case somehow coerced and bullied Evans into confessing to the murders. Why is it that neither Evans or his council never once complained about police procedure?

It seems that one of the biggest arguments in Evans’ favour is that it would be nearly impossible to have two stranglers living in the same house. Too much of a coincidence? There have been bigger coincidences.

John Hurt played the part of Evans in the film 10 Rillington place with great sympathy but it did not portray Evans for what he really was; a violent drunken wife-beater and murderer.