Sir Daniel James Brabin MC (14 August 1913 – 22 September 1975) was a judge of the High Court of England from 1962 until his death.
[3][4] Brabin served with the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, receiving a commission to second lieutenant from gunner on 11 May 1940,[5] and was awarded the Military Cross in 1945.
Timothy Evans had been hanged in 1950 for the murder of his small child, Geraldine, after a trial in which his then neighbour in the same building, John Christie, testified against him.
He never considered the incompetence of the police in their searches of the garden at 10 Rillington Place who failed to uncover the buried skeletal remains of two of Christie's previous victims, one of whose femurs he had used as a fence prop.
In 1965 Evans' remains had been exhumed from Pentonville Prison and reburied in St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Leytonstone, Greater London.
[9][10] The case was noted as recently as the 1998 decision of the Lords Regina v. Chief Constable of Sussex Ex Parte International Trader's Ferry Limited 1998 UKHL 40, concerning police protection for the customers of ITF, a company involved in the export of livestock through the port of Shoreham, during the early months of 1995 when animal rights protesters were trying to stop the trade.