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===John Bodkin Adams===
Suspected [[serial killer]] [[John Bodkin Adams]] was arrested in 1956, accused of murdering up to 400 wealthy patients in [[Eastbourne]].<ref name=Cullen>{{cite book|last=Cullen|first=Pamela V. Halliday|title=A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams|date=2006|publisher=Elliott & Thompson|location=London|isbn=1-904027-19-9}}</ref> The press, "egged on by police leaks, unanimously declared Adams guilty," except for [[Percy Hoskins]], chief crime reporter for the ''Express''.<ref name=Hoskins>''Two Men Were Acquitted: The trial and acquittal of Doctor John Bodkin Adams'', Secker & Warburg, 1984</ref> Hoskins was adamant that Adams was a naive doctor prosecuted by an overzealous detective, [[Herbert Hannam]], whom Hoskins disliked from previous cases.<ref name=Hoskins/> The ''Express'', under Hoskins's direction, was the only major paper to defend Adams, causing [[Lord Beaverbrook]] to question Hoskins's stance.<ref name=Hoskins/>

Adams was cleared in 1957 of the murder of [[Edith Alice Morrell]] (a second count was withdrawn controversially). After the case, Beaverbrook phoned Hoskins and said: "Two people were acquitted today", meaning Hoskins as well.<ref name=Hoskins/> The ''Express'' carried an exclusive interview with Adams, whom Hoskins interviewed in a safe house away from other newspapers. According to archives released in 2003, Adams was thought by police to have killed 163 patients.<ref name=Cullen/>