Looks like he's going to be rushed out next week... what the fuck has been going on? Hundreds if not thousands of innocent men and women are in prison and hundreds if not thousands of killers and sex abusers are out there raping and murdering children like Milly Dowler whilst the police and CPS jail innocent people.


When oh when will society wake up?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7938033.stm

Could I point out that we miscarriage of justice victims are at a disadvantage here - we've been convicted of crimes THAT NEVER TOOK PLACE.

Even new DNA discoveries can never prove we were not guilty when there is no evidence that a crime ever took place.

Innocent until proved guilty? Bollocks.

[b].Innocent until proved guilty? Bollocks.[/quote]

In fact it seems our bollocks have been found guilty!
But of course the pen is mightier than the sword,especially when the government want easy scapegoats to draw attention away from there own,more obvious follies elsewhere.
Good luck with your own appeals JK:)

do victims of miscarriages of justice get any form of compensation or resettlement help?

as the latest Private Eye points out: in the last 25 years 11 murder convictions in South Wales alone have been overturned yet Cardiff council have blocked an enquiry into South Wales Police whose methods have been repeatedly shown in court to be devious if not outright dishonest.

Until a few dishonest cops are banged up, little will change. What have they got to lose ?. They don't wear the cost, personal or financial of their shenanigans.

Tiny piece in the Mirror and nothing in the Sun - funny how a GOOD STORY becomes less of a good story when it implies your paper's news coverage is crap.

They can claim compensation, but then the goernment bills them for their time spent in jail. As some cases have shown, the government demand payment of the 'rent' long before any compensation is received. They will, however, give the victim a loan to help pay the 'rent', to which they add interest and so make even more money out of their victim. So, government exploitation of the innocent continues.

I remember a few years ago when a child care worker who'd been wrongly convicted of shild abuse was released on appeal. The BBC news reader said that this was only the tip of the iceburg and that more cases were bound to come to light.

The next day, and even now, there was no further mention of the issue.

Yesterday a BBC new reader said how this latest miscarriage of justice was only the tip of the iceburg and that more cases are bound to come to light.

I wonder if we'll hear much more about it after today.

We'll hear about it when it happens next week - then silence like Sally Clark and Stefan Kiszko and the rest.

Society simply cannot face the reality about the police and judicial system.

Like Nazis in Germany, better to look away.

It's another glaring example of the dumbing down of the media.

Up to 20 years ago every newspaper had great investigative reporters they could put on a case-or who would approach their editor with tips and were given permission to pursue the matter until they got results.

That's all out the window now with so much info coming in from a handful of agencies, PRs etc.

They still have the resourses though to put teams on chasing up whether Beck's hemline has changed or if Jade is in or out of hospital (where the hell is she ?) and other such minding numbing tosh.

Haute de le Guerre says it all really..one of the greatest con jobs perpetuated upon the British public ( which swept the world) with an unholy alliance between seemingly bonkers police (God only knows what they thought they would achieve ?)and reporters...all only 12 months ago.

But yet again, strangely, the best and highest profile coverage is in the Times - the whole of p3.

Two threads on the same topic - when will editors wake up to the fact that there is a GOOD STORY hidden away in all these daily miscarriages of justice?

Rather than have just one "good story", it seems the papers plug for two "good stories". They wallow in a conviction and live in hope that it turns out to be wrongful so that they can have a second wallow and make even more money.

Truth is nothing compared to money in their eyes. A man being released after a lengthy sentence is a much better story for them than him not being convicted at all.