Panorama tonight - a must see programme.
I have to tell you; in my 3 1/2 years in Her Majesty's Prison Estate I met dozens of people, both other inmates and officers, who had met and spent time with Barry George and not one of them - not ONE - thought that he was guilty or even capable of doing it if he'd wanted to.
This was just one of the higher profile cases of clear miscarriage of justice.
Remember - I speak from personal experience here.
Up until 2000, I believed absolutely and totally in British justice.
Now I would say many, many convictions are unsafe.
A very frightening revelation.

I worked at the beeb at the time of the murder and trial. Nobody in the newsroom thought Barry George did it.

Yes but have you noticed the media (Sun and Mail today)?
Furiously anti-Barry George, smearing the show's presenter, saying the BBC don't approve of the Panorama show...
Don't you get the feeling that pressure is being placed on media?

The only snippet of evidence has been thoroughly discredited.

Even several of the Jury don't think he was guilty (at the time he was only convicted on a majority verdict as the Jury was split).

Now that the ONLY bit of evidence has been discredited I wonder what the Jury "split" would be today?

I have said the same thing about Roy Whiting. * Sole eye witness description did not match man or vehicle. * Only physical evidence was shown to be contaminated in property room. But the guy had 'previous' so he must be guilty. I have no personal knowledge of whether he was guilty or not, but the case was most certainly not proven.

Several others cases raise questions also. Not least JK's.

I can assure you I am totally innocent of the convictions against me; one of which was for a crime allegedly committed when I was on another continent.

The appeal process continues.

But I must tell you, the old raised eyebrow about "everyone claims to be innocent" is getting short shrift in prison these days where more and more decent men and women who work with inmates - officers, governors, staff, chaplains, medical teams - are becoming certain that many incarcerated people are victims and not perpetrators.

Another example; Michael Stone.
NOBODY makes a cell confession through a pipe in the wall.
Nobody.

can be discovered by a conversation with a man called Jamie Shea.
Brussels.
May 12th 1999.

It was in the papers that there was a plausible Serbian connection to the murder:

www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,749126,00.html

far too many doubts to be certain "beyond all reasonable doubt". Why is the very corner stone of the criminal conviction criteria overlooked? And I cannot believe in a conviction based on hearsay and/or tabloid emotivism.