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PROOF is back. Issue #7 out now: Cover-ups, jailhouse snitches & scapegoats. Check out here: thejusticegap.com/cover-ups-… . Order your copy now thejusticegap.com/shop
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📺 Tonight at 9pm on Crime+Investigation, @WillMellor explores Sam Hallam’s case. After 7 years in prison, his conviction was overturned, but the fight for compensation continues. @MattFoot2 🔗 shorturl.at/vrk6H
New forensic analysis of photos of White House Farm murders given to @guardian cast even more doubt on the case against Jeremy Bamber. Bamber’s solicitor @MarkNewbyqsj: ‘Yet another independent report raising serious questions abt conviction.' thejusticegap.com/forensic-a…
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The Guardian commissioned a forensic biologist to examine the bloodstain patterns from the crime scene at White House Farm. Her findings suggest that Jeremy Bamber's sister Sheila took her own life with the rifle
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Rajiv Menon is one of the many brilliant and principled lawyers who have represented #spycops survivors over the years, and continue to defend those taking action now to make the world a better place.
We stand in solidarity with him.
‘The attack on Rajiv Menon is an attack on us all’: 140 lawyers, trade unionists & campaigners met in London to support the barrister who faces up to two years in prison over his closing speech in trial of six Palestine Action protesters. Photo: Jess Hurd thejusticegap.com/the-attack…
A man who spent 20yrs in prison under indefinite sentence imposed when he was 17 released after court ruled sentence a ‘very serious error'. Luke Ings was sentenced in 2006 for robbery and assault. Original sentence was 21m. Photo: Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/freed-afte…
‘The attack on Rajiv Menon is an attack on us all’: 140 lawyers, trade unionists & campaigners met in London to support the barrister who faces up to two years in prison over his closing speech in trial of six Palestine Action protesters. Photo: Jess Hurd thejusticegap.com/the-attack…
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The #Spycops Inquiry has revealed many more police abuses than anticipated, but it is now under threat due to delays & spiralling costs caused by excessive police demands for secrecy. It is critical that the Inquiry continues & examines more recent abuses
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Custody battle: @JonRobins10 writing for new @PrivateEyeNews on the latest twist in shocking Danny Major case. 20 yrs after the Eye first reported on it & 10 yrs after chair of Gtr Manchester Police Fed told @JusticeGap Danny was 'vindicated'. thejusticegap.com/12548/
It's taken 19 years for Danny to get back to the Court of Appeal. In 2015 an external police investigation backed up his account raising serious concerns about how as a young police officer he had been fitted up by corrupt colleagues for beating up a teenager in the station.
The Met was aware of scale of abusive relationships of undercover police officers 11 years but stuck to 'neither confirm not deny' and didn't tell women. Tom Clements reports on the uncertain future of the Spycops inquiry and latest disturbing revelations thejusticegap.com/the-uncert…
UK Terror laws, Palestine Action and lessons from Turkey: Erdost Akin on Turkey's decades-long counterinsurgency against the PKK and dangers of of normalising security and the 'boomerang effect' thejusticegap.com/opposition…
Court of Appeal to review murder conviction over loss of control defence: Nicholas Curtis was jailed for life for murder of Glenda Jackson in 2018. CCRC says unclear whether the trial judge had considered partial defence of loss of control thejusticegap.com/court-of-a…
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The Guildford Four were released on this day 1989.
They spent 15 years in prison for something they didn’t do.
Their only crime was being Irish.
Probation officers vote on industrial action as thousands of prisoners are released early: @Napotheunion chair Ben Cockburn: 'Put the service into special measures. We are firefighting from one emergency to another.' Pic: Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/probation-…
Such an impressive podcast. Brilliant investigation by Louise Shorter who has been reporting on case since 2012 - dusturbing parallels with Letby and other cases. Do give it a go.
Did Colin Norris kill patients in his care?
This excellent podcast from @BBCSounds by Louise Shorter leaves me unsure. A compelling listen:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m003…
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Did Colin Norris kill patients in his care?
This excellent podcast from @BBCSounds by Louise Shorter leaves me unsure. A compelling listen:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m003…
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Ahead of the event hosted by @Bambos_MP on 20 Oct (5–7pm, Room T, Portcullis House), please attend to hear directly from families & experts on ending IPP sentences.
Cross-party action is vital to fix this injustice.
Kent prison adds 247 places as jail overcrowding persists: New block at HMP Elmley expected to receive its first prisoners in the coming weeks - part of MoJ plan to create 14,000 additional prison places by 2031 thejusticegap.com/kent-priso…
