Haunting Mystery of Helen Duncan


by Paul Kelbie C


AMPAIGNERS looking to overturn the conviction of celebrated medium Helen


Duncan, who was jailed for witchcraſt in 1944, are aiming for a fresh look at the case ahead of the 60th anniversary of her death next year.


Duncan became the last woman to be imprisoned for raising the spirits of the dead aſter a show trial at the Old Bailey just months before the D-Day landings.


Supporters of the former housewife and mother of six from Callander claim she was set up by the security services in an atempt to prevent her revealing secrets of the Normandy landings before they took place.


Duncan, who died in December 1956, never fully recovered from the nine-month prison term she was sentenced to under an antiquated 200- year-old law and has since been hailed as spiritualism’s greatest heroine and martyr.


Aſter years of compiling evidence to show her trial at the Old Bailey was unfair campaigners are now working on new moves to have her case reviewed again.


Helen Duncan 1944


Helen Duncan, was jailed for witchcraſt in 1944. Campaigners are aiming for a fresh look at the case ahead of the 60th anniversary of her death next year.


They are seeking a posthumous pardon, especially as they claim there is evidence she may have been the victim of a plot involving British intelligence agents, including Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.


The campaign has atracted global support with more than 20 million people from as far afield as China, Taiwan, Russia, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Iceland logging on to its website.


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