Then he learns from the pie-maker Mrs. Lovett that his wife poisoned herself after being raped by Judge Turpin.

For example, Judge Turpin and his henchman, the Beadle, both play trumpets - instruments of brassy authority.

Joseph McKee's Judge Turpin was warmly sung without ever descending too deeply into the tortured ambiguities of the character.

In this version she is the ward of Judge Turpin, the man who falsely convicted her father and raped her mother.

Edmund Lyndeck played Judge Turpin in the original 1979 production of Sondheim's musical.

Mark Jacoby portrayed Judge Turpin in the 2005 revival musical.

Austin Kent played Judge Turpin in the 1980 London production.

Denis Quilley portrayed Judge Turpin in the London revival.

Opposite looms the headquarters of the diabolical Judge Turpin.

But David Barron imbues the role of Judge Turpin with just the right air of corrupt self-righteousness.