A bid to officially clear the name of three people convicted of trying to kill a prime minister has failed. Alice Wheeldon, her daughter and son-in-law were convicted in 1917 of a conspiracy to kill ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A century-old police ledger featuring a mugshot of a one-time suffragette and anti-war campaigner convicted on the evidence of a ...

After more than a decade actively campaigning to have the case of Derby suffragette Alice Wheeldon referred to the Court of Appeal in the hoping of clearing her name, her relatives have been told that ...

Alice Wheeldon, who lived in Pear Tree Road in Derby, was found guilty of the poison plot against David Lloyd George in 1917. Sentenced to 10 years, Mrs Wheeldon was released after nine months due to ...

In March 1917 the British attorney-general, FE Smith, led the prosecution of Alice Wheeldon (a seller of second-hand clothes), two of her daughters (both schoolteachers) and her son-in-law (a lecturer ...

A police ledger featuring a pacifist convicted of trying to kill a prime minister has been sold for about five times its estimate. Saved from a skip, the book featured a mugshot of Alice Wheeldon, who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The haunting image of suffragette Alice Wheeldon who was wrongly convicted of plotting to kill former prime minister David Lloyd ...