Brand seemed to age 1,000 years in three weeks. At the end he looked hollowed out, his wattage dimmed, his dandy highwayman swagger just a memory: JAN MOIR

It was the best of trials, it was the worst of trials, but above all it was the strangest of criminal trials.

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