Table of Contents
Foreword Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders xiii
Preface xiv
Chapter 1 The evening paper and the return of the blood-stained man. 1
Chapter 2 Oswald Grey. Forgotten, unreported and nobody's cause celebre. 6
Chapter 3 Saturday evening, 2 June 1962. The fatal consequence of no cricket and no pub. 17
Chapter 4 Hard graft and grey weather; blues parties and church. 28
Chapter 5 The official details - still firmly locked in the vault. 52
Chapter 6 Arrest, trial and conviction. Why a bewildered Oswald never stood a chance. 58
Chapter 7 Not like us. Other people with their guns, drugs and sex. 69
Chapter 8 November 1962. Castro and Marilyn hit the headlines. A Birmingham execution goes unnoticed. 89
Chapter 9 Records lost in transit. The creation of non-people. 98
Chapter 10 Vile jokes in high places. How a nerdy schoolboy set the standard for British racism. 107
Chapter 11 Sixty years on: Black boy dies in Lee Bank. Of course he does. 127
Postscript after a year of lockdown. How Covid was allowed to discriminate and why our rulers remained deaf to systemic racism. 146
Acknowledgements and resources 154
