Sir Richard George Rougier (12 February 1932 – 25 October 2007) was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales for 15 years.
His mother, a successful published author by the time of his birth, referred to Rougier as her "most notable (indeed peerless) work.
"[1] In 1939, his father was called to the Bar, and the family moved first to Brighton, then to Hove, so that Ronald Rougier could easily commute to London.
[2] The Blitz made train travel uncertain at times, making it difficult for Rougier's father to commute.
In a civil case in 1991, he ruled that the family of Lynn Siddons, who had been stabbed to death in 1977, was entitled to damages from her suspected murderer Michael Brookes.
He presided at the murder trial of Jonathan Jones, accused of killing Harry and Megan Tooze, the parents of his girlfriend, at their farmhouse in Llanharry in mid-Glamorgan in 1993.