How a podcast can lead to a campaign for a full posthumous pardon (Part 2)

The last post left me awaiting the arrival of a formal account of the affair, the murder of Edith's husband and the subsequent trial and execution of both Edie and Fred.
René Weis's book arrived shortly after I placed the order and once I started reading I found it almost impossible to put down.
The cover quote from Ludovic Kennedy in the Observer sums it up well: 'Even today, sixty-five years later (my edition was published in 1990), one cannot read Mr Weis's graphic account without a sense of outrage.'
This is true. I have now had the opportunity to read other accounts, both formal and informal of Edith Thompson's life and death and I believe that her execution for the murder of her husband was a miscarriage of justice of dreadful proportions.
Convicted on the basis of the letters she sent to her lover Frederick Bywaters I believe she was entirely innocent of the crime she was charged with (i.e. of the murder of her husband) but that she was guilty, in the eyes of the public and of the court, of a crime of immorality; that the explicit letters she sent her lover were unacceptable in the social mileu of 1920s London.
Without going into too much detail here, the murder of Percy Thompson took place as he and Edith were walking back from a theatre visit one evening. A man (later identified as Frederick Bywaters) leapt from the shadows and stabbed Percy, leaving him to die as his wife struggled to find help.
Freddy Bywaters admitted his deed but strongly denied any involvement of Edith Thompson in his action. During the length of his incarceration and right up until his execution he protested Edith's innocence, as did she.
It is interesting to note that during the latter part of 1922 the handsome Bywaters commanded a petition (via a London paper) numbering some thousands to secure his acquittal (even after his admission) whereas the sinful Edith received far less support. A married woman taking a much younger lover was always going to cause some suspicion in that era.
Still, the fact remains that there was no hard evidence on which to convict Edith; the perpetrator of the crime pleaded her innocence from beginning to end and the one flimsy accusation they had (that Edith had been slowly poisoning her husband) was completely quashed by two of the country's leading coroners who each said, entirely seperately, that there was no evidence of any toxins in Percy's body at the time of his death.
On 9 January 1923 Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were hanged. Following an horrific haemorrhage at the time of the hanging she was widely rumoured to have been pregnant and her executioner eventually committed suicide, with his closest associates stating that he had remained haunted by the horror of Edith's final moments.
I remain haunted by them too and that's why I hope to achieve a posthumous pardon for Edith, I have no idea what I need to do but I understand your local MP is the best place to start. I am drafting an email now.