In 2010, Duncan Campbell wrote the obituary of my brother Martin Beales, a lawyer and crime writer.
He took great care to capture Martin’s detailed work on the case of Herbert Rowse Armstrong, executed as a murderer in the 1920s, in his book Dead Not Buried. When it was being debated at the Hay literary festival in 1995, Armstrong’s daughter Margaret was able to assert that her father was vindicated, and that he was a victim of injustice and a “hanging judge”. Duncan understood the importance of truth and justice to Martin, and was a tremendous support to the family.
