Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display

‘Particularly sick’ … Terry Deary has decried the book about murderer William Corder’s trial, believed to be bound in his skin. Photograph: Moyse’s Hall Museum

A second copy of a book bound in the skin of a notorious 19th-century murderer is now on display at a Suffolk museum.

However, Horrible Histories creator Terry Deary has told the Guardian that the volume is a “particularly sick” artefact which “shouldn’t be on display”.