The second series of Conviction is due to be aired on BBC 2 on 19th and 20th June, at 9.00 pm.
Titled “Murder in Suburbia”, it follows the case of Glyn Razzell – who was convicted of murdering his estranged wife in 2003.
If you didn’t catch Series 1 it is available on YouTube. Please follow this link.
Regular visitors to this site will be aware of our interest in the case of the Freshwater Five, convicted in 2011 of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the UK. The Five were jailed for a collective total of 104 years. The allegations against them were, at best, improbable in the extreme. The Court of Appeal […]
The following press release was issued by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) yesterday (12 February 2021): The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the murder and attempted murder convictions of Colin Norris to the Court of Appeal. On 3 March 2008 Colin Norris was convicted, by majority, of murdering four women and attempting to […]
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has written to Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf, raising serious concerns about the management of Covid-19 in Scotland’s prisons. The Commission is seeking assurance that steps will be taken to address the rising prison population, which is fast approaching pre-lockdown levels. This is particularly worrying, because the rise in prisoner numbers […]