Davies was called to the bar at Lincoln 's Inn in 1948 , where he became a bencher in 1972 and was Treasurer in 1991 . He practised on the Midland Circuit , and became a QC in 1964 . He led the prosecution of Buster Edwards in 1966 for his part in the Great Train Robbery three years earlier , and of William Waite , the " gentle poisoner " who had killed his wife . He was the Leader of the Midland Circuit and a member of the Bar Council from 1968 to 1971 , and then Joint Leader of the Midland and Oxford Circuit from 1971 to 1973
Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery (1963)
Michael Davies (judge)