Failures at the CCRC

APPEAL’s Matt Foot writes for the London Review of Books

 

Thirty​ years ago, the passing of the Criminal Appeal Act led to the foundation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), a publicly funded body intended to investigate miscarriages of justice and with the power to refer cases back to the Court of Appeal. It was set up after a series of spectacular miscarriages were very belatedly righted. On 19 October 1989 the Guildford Four had walked out of the Old Bailey to a jubilant crowd. ‘I have been in prison for fifteen years for something I didn’t do,’ Gerry Conlon shouted at the cameras. ‘For something I didn’t know anything about. I am a totally innocent man. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn’t do. He is innocent, the Maguires are innocent. Let’s hope the Birmingham Six are freed.’

Read the full article from the London Review of Books here.

 

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