Joseph Cooksey Jackson

Joseph Cooksey Jackson KC (12 January 1879 – 26 April 1938) was a British barrister and Conservative politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe from 1931 to 1935.

He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1900. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1908, and was called to the bar in 1909.

He defended the boxer Jackie Brown on an assault charge in 1934, with Edgar Lustgarten as his junior. In 1936 he successfully prosecuted Dr Buck Ruxton, in the infamous killings known as the Jigsaw Murders.

References

1 2 "House of Commons". Leigh Rayment. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
1 2 3 "Jackson, Joseph Cooksey (JK897JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
1 2 Craddock, Jeremy (28 May 2021). The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-9767-6.
↑ "Boxer who bit a man's ear". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2010.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Joseph Cooksey Jackson

Blundell, R. H.; Wilson; G. Haswell (1950). James H. Hodge (ed.). Famous Trials III. Middlesex: Penguin Books. pp. 162–236. ISBN 978-0-140-00787-9. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Craddock, Jeremy (2022) [2021]. The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics. Cheltenham: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-750-99767-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)