Peter Sullivan has recounted how he was ‘bullied’ and beaten into confessing to a murder he did not commit before wrongfully spending 38 years in prison. His conviction was overturned this year.

The Post Office paid one law firm more than the entire cost of the public inquiry into the Horizon miscarriage of justice for four year’s of representation. As reported in Computer Weekly, which broke ...

In 1991, 19-year-old Oliver Campbell was convicted of murder and conspiracy to rob. He spent 12 years in prison. In 2025, his conviction was quashed, following new psychological evidence that revealed ...

Last month the legal charity APPEAL launched a groundbreaking report – Joint Enterprise on Trial. Dr Nisha Waller and Tehreem Sultan observed 17 murder and attempted murder trials at the Old Bailey — ...

The incoming interim chair of the miscarriage of justice watchdog has described the leadership at the troubled organization as ‘arrogant’ and ‘dismissive’. Dame Vera Baird KC told the the BBC Radio ...

Former victims commissioner Dame Vera Baird has been appointed as the interim chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). In announcing her appointment, the Ministry of Justice highlighted ...

MPs have called on the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s chief exec to go as part of ‘root and branch reform’ required to fix the troubled watchdog body which presently has no chair. The House of ...

Lawyers who represented the men and women wrongly convicted of the Birmingham and Guildford pub bombings this week warned about a return to ‘the bad old days’, called for ‘a complete reconstruction’ ...

A former police officer claiming to be wrongly convicted of an assault that took place at a police station has accused the Criminal Cases Review Commission of ‘delaying action for years’ despite a ...

Women’s prisons have ‘astonishing gaps in basic decency’ and an ‘overreliance’ on physical force according to new research which examined conditions in four jails. Self-harm among women in prison has ...

An international panel of neonatologists and medical experts reviewing the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has found no evidence of murder by the former nurse Lucy Letby – instead ...

Polling has revealed that public support for bringing back capital punishment for certain crimes has increased from 50 to 55%, compared to its last poll in autumn 2023. The data, gathered by More in ...