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This has left my local community shocked and sickened.


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It's sickening and, unfortunately, not just a modern occurence. My dad often told me of these happenings in Staffordshire. The perpetrators were never caught.

 

Great Wyrley is also known for the Wyrley Outrages which took place in the vicinity between 1903 and 1915. These were cases of mutilations of animals, especially horses, which were perpetrated by the ‘Great Wyrley Gang’. The case of the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of George Edalji in 1903 as the alleged gang leader attracted considerable interest and still does today. Edalji was a Birmingham lawyer and the son of the local vicar, Shapurji Edalji, a Parsee convert to Christianity. The family had been subject to anonymous letters and hoaxes for some time before. Eventually the conviction attracted the attention of Arthur Conan Doyle and a press campaign was launched to free Edalji. Edalji was granted a free pardon in 1907.

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