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#4403 Sir Robert Peel Bart

SIR ROBERT PEEL of course gave us the modern police office, or “peeler”. Less known perhaps is that it almost cost him his life. Woodturner Daniel M’Naghten, with a history of mental health issues, assassinated his Personal Secretary, Edward Drummond, by virtue of mistaken identity - he believed he was killing Peel who he blamed for xxxxxx. The case led to a new legal defence of criminal insanity and brought into being the infamous M’Naghten Rules.