In THIS VIDEO Michael O’Brian, of the Cardiff 3 (Newsagent) gives an insightful account of his own miscarriage of justice experience. Much has been written about this disturbing case, although it’s debatable whether anything has actually been learned from it. Here is Michael’s own take, in a video of just over 24 minutes duration, “An Anatomy of an Injustice”.
Our client, Martin Thomas, has been shortlisted for the quarterly John Byrne Award for his poem Inside. Martin has been sharing his experiences as a wrongfully convicted prisoner in Scotland and highlighting the experiences of others in his podcast – The Innocent Inmate. The Innocent Inmate is available on the following LINKS. More information on […]
Our own Jimmy Boyle, a teacher by profession, needs no lessons in the experience of disadvantage in modern Scotland. A gay man who has suffered the trauma and the stigma of wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and who continues to suffer, daily, the suffocating limitations to recovery and restitution, imposed on his life by the institutions […]
Today marks the thirty-second anniversary of the quashing of the wrongful convictions surrounding the pub bombings of Guilford and Woolwich and the exoneration of Paul Michael Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson. After their arrest, the police elicited coerced confessions using tactics ranging from intimidation through to torture, including expressed threats against family […]