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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 28, 2024.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in the Littlehampton libels, Edith Swan fooled three juries and two judges, had another woman sent to prison twice, and was declared not guilty before finally being convicted?

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Motives?

Latest comment: 7 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Any info on those? At least speculation by authors of books about the case? Having read the whole article, I still don't understand why Swan did it. ~2025-38000-28 (talk) 04:17, 16 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Swan always denied she had done it and therefore provided no reason. - SchroCat (talk) 06:06, 16 December 2025 (UTC)Reply