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Among his other notable cases, in 1964 Swanwick defended John Denby
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in prison; they were acquitted by the jury. In 1977, he tried the so-called "Epping Torso murder case", in which London criminals
Reginald Dudley and Robert Maynard were convicted of the murders of Billy Moseley and Micky Cornwall. Dudley and Maynard's convictions were quashed in 2002.
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