Joseph Cooksey JacksonJoseph 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][3] and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1900.[2] He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1908, and was called to the bar in 1909.[2] He defended the boxer Jackie Brown on an assault charge in 1934, with Edgar Lustgarten as his junior.[4] In 1936 he successfully prosecuted Dr Buck Ruxton, in the infamous killings known as the Jigsaw Murders.[3] References
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