With no genuine physical evidence or witness statement, she was convicted on circumstantial evidence alone. Presumed guilty by the public, with her character destroyed in a pre-trial media frenzy. The full potential of the accusations made against her represented the of pinnacle of pre-existing Victorian fears regarding poisoning for profit. At her trial the fact that the accused was a woman went against her due to Victorian values regarding who or what women were or should be.
Badly represented in court by her defense, and hammered by the big-wig London prosecutor, regardless of guilt she didn't stand a chance.
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