In the 16th century carting was a punishment. A person was made to sit in a cart and ride through the streets to be mocked by the crowd. Someone would bang a basin to attract attention. In 1560 a woman in London was convicted of being a 'bawd' (procuring girls for prostitution). She procured an 11-year-old girl and 'sent her off to be a whore'. So sex trafficking is nothing new. As a punishment, the woman was carted.
On 3 September 1952, an unfortunate British Somali man named Mahmood Hussein Mattan was hanged for the murder of a shopkeeper. His conviction was quashed in 1998. I dread to think how many other innocent people were executed.
On 2 September 1685 Alice Lisle became the last woman to be beheaded in England. She was executed in Winchester.
This YouTube video shows how Communists covered up the Holodomor, a genocide in Ukraine.
Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols was murdered on 31 August 1888. Many people believe she was the first victim of the Whitechapel murderer.
I wrote about Maartje Tamboezer, a Dutch girl living in England. In 1986 she was the victim of a horrific murder in Surrey. The two men who killed her are still in prison.
This article by Courtroom News discusses two men, John Duffy and David Mulcahy who raped a number of women and murdered three of them.
