Joseph Cooksey Jackson Explained

Joseph Cooksey Jackson KC (12 January 1879 – 26 April 1938^[1]) was a British barrister and Conservative politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe from 1931 to 1935.^[1]

He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster^[2] and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1900. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1908, and was called to the bar in 1909.

He defended the boxer Jackie Brown on an assault charge in 1934, with Edgar Lustgarten as his junior.^[3] In 1936 he successfully prosecuted Dr Buck Ruxton, in the infamous killings known as the Jigsaw Murders.^[4]

Further reading

• Book: Blundell, R. H. . Wilson; G. Haswell . James H. Hodge . 1950 . Famous Trials III . Penguin Books. Middlesex . 162–236. 978-0-140-00787-9. .
• Book: Craddock. Jeremy. The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics. 2022. 2021. The History Press . Cheltenham. 978-0-750-99767-6. .

Notes and References

1. Web site: House of Commons. Leigh Rayment. 2 August 2010. usurped. https://web.archive.org/web/20181011152457/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons3.htm. 11 October 2018.
2. Book: Craddock, Jeremy . The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics . 2021-05-28 . History Press . 978-0-7509-9767-6 . en.
3. News: Boxer who bit a man's ear. The Guardian. 2010-08-08.
4. Book: Craddock, Jeremy . The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics . 2021-05-28 . History Press . 978-0-7509-9767-6 . en.