The Crimes

At the turn of the 20th century the place was the scene of the ‘Great Wyrley Outrages,’ an incident involving six horse slashings at Plant Pit Meadow. a local solicitor, George Edalji, was convicted of the crimes in a miscarriage of justice, and was sentenced to seven years’ hard labour. Edalji’s family had been the victims of a long running campaign of untraceable abusive letters and anonymous harassment for several years prior to the ‘outrages.’ These letters then alleged that George he was partially responsible for the outrages and caused police suspicion to focus on him.