Glyn-Jones was leader of the Wales and Chester Circuit in 1944-45 and Recorder of Cardiff from 1945 to 1952 . He was Deputy Chairman of the Berkshire Quarter Sessions from 1951 to 1962 . He became a Commissioner of Assize on the Oxford Circuit and a Bencher at Middle Temple in 1952 , and was appointed as a High Court judge in 1953 , allocated to the Queen 's Bench Division and receiving the customary knighthood . Among his notable cases as a judge were the Shepherd 's Bush murders and the poisoner Louisa May Merrifield
Shepherd 's Bush murders
Shepherd's Bush murders
Hildreth Glyn-Jones