(Cedric) Keith Simpson. British forensic scientist, head of department at Guy's Hospital, London 1962-72. His evidence sent John Haig (the acid bath murderer) and Neville Heath to the gallows. In 1965 he identified the first "battered baby" murder in England.
Author of: Forty Years of Murder (1978) The Mysteries of Life and Death (1979) Sherlock Holmes on Medicine and Science (1983)