ONE of the UK's leading civil rights lawyers is to give a talk in Worcester about one of the most pivotal, but least known figures, of the English Civil War.
Geoffrey Robertson is to lecture in The Commandery, Sidbury, on the life and times of John Cooke, a farmer's son from Leicestershire, who rose via Oxford University and the Inns of Court, to become the man chosen to present the prosecution case against Charles I.
Cooke's brilliance sent the King to the gallows, but he was later to pay with his own life and 11 years later, come the Restoration, he was hanged, drawn and quartered for his pains.
Mr Robertson, a human rights barrister, academic, author and broadcaster, has written a book about Cooke called The Tyrannicide Brief and this will form the basis of his talk on the evening of Thursday, June 25. The event is part of the Civil War Nights talks organised by the Battle of Worcester Society and will start at 7pm with tickets costing £7 available from the Commandery or payable on the door. Reservations are requested before June 19 to allow for a seating plan.
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