Evidence in a rape trial was dismissed after a judge branded a police officer an “evasive and not credible” witness.
Judge Lady Scott revealed that she had barred the jury from hearing Jake Hawkins, 22, police interview after calling the questioning of him “wholly improper”.
On 30 December 2024, just ten days after his eightieth birthday, we lost our founder and our hero, Paddy Joe Hill. Paddy was one of six men wrongfully arrested, tortured and framed for the 1974 Birmingham Pub Bombings. Paddy meant so much to so many people across the world and left behind far more than […]
At our first annual Paddy Hill Memorial Lecuture, we were delighted to share that we have been working closely with local award winning documentary film-maker Hannah Currie and executive producer Sandra Leeming. We have for the past two years putting together developement filiming for a campaign film about the plight of our clients. In order […]
On Wednesday1 April 2026 Edinburgh Filmhouse are screening two award-winning short films After Eight: The Story of Satpal Ram and Murewa Satpal Ram was 19 years old when he was attacked in a restaurant in Lozells, Birmingham in November 1986. He was eating a meal with two friends in a Bengali restaurant when a group directed […]