Our latest release

White lies, Black blood: The Awful Killing of Kipper Billy

By veteran true-crime reporter Ken Blanch

A totally revised edition of the tragic case of Australian Indigenous man Kipper Billy, a convicted rapist condemned to hang in Australia in 1862 before a watertight alibi was established for him and his co-accused, Billy Horton. While Horton was pardoned before the execution could be carried out, no such acknowledgment of innocence was extended to Kipper Billy, who had been killed during an attempted jailbreak. Dogged crime reporter Ken Blanch wrote the first edition of this book White Lies, Black Blood: The Awful Killing of Kipper Billy in 2015, which resulted in an historic posthumous pardon for Kipper Billy by the Governor of Queensland in 2018, possibly the world's first pardon of an Indigenous prisoner who died in custody.

This is the story of that pardon and what happened next. Buy the new version here now and have it delivered to your home. Get it for Kindle here, or buy the ebook and get it immediately here.

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