Leonardo St Paul's, London
GOLDSBORO BOOKS STAGE
Friday 13 June 2025
09:30 - 10:20
Dr Duncan Harding (forensic psychologist),
Graham Bartlett (Police)
and Nicola Williams (practising Judge)
in conversation with participating moderator
(and criminal defence lawyer) Ruth Mancini.
Dr Duncan
Harding is a
consultant adolescent psychiatrist, working with adults and children who commit
serious crime. He is a specialist member of the Parole Board for England and
Wales, and the college lead for expert witnesses at the Royal College of
Psychiatrists. Specialising in forensic mental health, he has provided expert
testimony in in many court cases involving homicide, serious violence and
terrorism, and has conducted research into conduct disorder and criminal
psychopathy. He lives in London.
Graham Bartlett was a police officer for thirty years, mainly
policed the city of Brighton and Hove. He rose to become a Chief Superintendent
and its police commander. He started writing when he left the police in 2013
and, almost by accident, became a police procedural and crime advisor, helping
scores of authors and TV writers to achieve authenticity in their drama. Graham
runs online crime writing workshops and courses with the Professional Writing
Academy and deliver inputs to Masters programmes at the University of Cambridge
and the University of East Anglia as well as at the Crime Writing Certificate
programme at West Dean College. He lives in Sussex with his wife Julie.
Nicola Williams
started her career as a barrister in private practice, specialising in Criminal
Law. She later worked as an Ombudsman both in the UK and abroad, dealing with
police and military misconduct. She has been a part-time Crown Court Judge
since 2010. She is the author of three legal thrillers. Without
Prejudice, Until Proven Innocent (winner of the Diverse
Book Awards Readers Choice Award 2024) and Killer Instinct, published July 2024.
Ruth Mancini was born in South-West London and, after graduating,
started her career as a marketing executive for a publisher before undertaking
a post-graduate diploma in law and retraining as a solicitor. Ruth has spent
the past twenty years in and out of courts and police stations, representing
those accused of crimes. She still practises as a lawyer for a large criminal
law firm with offices in London, conducting advocacy in the courts and
defending people arrested at the police station. She also reviews the trial
files across the firm and juggles her legal work with writing crime and
psychological fiction. Her debut crime thriller
In The Blood is a Sunday Times Crime Club pick and a top ten Amazon
bestseller. She now lives in Oxford with her husband and two children.
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