Justin Plummer spent 27 years in prison for a murder which he always insisted was nothing to do with
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Peter Sullivan spent more than 38 years in jail in what has been described as the biggest miscarriage of
Last year, new guidance was issued by the Parole Board to its members regarding how to consider the cases
Board says prisoners who deny crimes may pose LOWER risk The Parole Board has said that prisoners who maintain
The September issue of Inside Time included an advertisement for the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) titled Unveiling the
(But how many more are still inside?) Andrew Malkinson clears his name after serving 17 years for a rape
The BBCs Panorama reported on the case of Colin Norris The case of Scottish nurse Colin Norris is an
The case of Simon Hall, convicted in 2003of murder, has recently been referred to the Court of Appeal by
Cautious steps from the Home Secretary, Theresa May. She has ‘asked’ the College of Policing to ‘consider’ implementing a
I am a lifer with a tariff of three and a half years. I am now coming up to
When the jury came back with a verdict of guilty, I felt numb. It was another surreal moment that
Just how innocent do you have to be to be awarded compensation if you are wrongly imprisoned? Let’s say you had
Having been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996, I thought, in the early stages, that I must be the
Lifers maintaining innocence informed that denial of guilt is not a bar to release, soon learn this is a
Following publication of my letters in Mailbag in April and June expressing my disappointment in criminal defence lawyers, I
On the 9th of June 2010, during PMs Questions, Prime Minister David Cameron admitted that between 8-10% of all