Anthony Scrivener

Leading barrister whose notable cases included those of Siôn Jenkins, Tony Martin, Winston Silcott and Dame Shirley Porter has died aged 79In what was seen as a revolutionary piece of legal dexterity, Anthony Scrivener QC acted for Florence Siddons, the grandmother of the teenage Lynn Siddons, stabbed to death on a Derbyshire towpath in April 1978. The police investigation was not well handled and a case was brought against a 15-year-old boy, Roy Brookes, who was rightly acquitted.There were no