Sir Harry Henry Ognall, DL (9 January 1934 – 13 April 2021[1][2]) was an English High Court judge, barrister and author.
His father was born in Canada but grew up in Glasgow, where his grandfather served as provost of Rutherglen.
[4] His great-grandparents, Lazarus Ognall and Rachael Rosenstein, were Russian Jews who emigrated to Glasgow.
[8] As a judge, he presided over the first trial for the murder of Rachel Nickell,[9] in which he ruled that the police had shown "excessive zeal” and had tried to incriminate Stagg by “deceptive conduct of the grossest kind".
[6] Ognall was portrayed by actor Simon Kunz in 2021 miniseries Deceit, which retold the story of Operation Edzell following the murder of Rachel Nickell.