miscarriage of justice
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Michael O’Brien is set to appear at the 2009 Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye.O’Brien will take part in a question and answer session on his autobiography, The Death of Justice, which describes his wrongful conviction for murder, his battle to clear his name and an examination of what he believes went wrong in the investigation of
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Michael O’Brien spent 11 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit.In December 1999, after judges quashed his conviction, he asked me to write a piece about his two-week appeal.That request turned into a plan to write a complete book of Mike’s life.It is an incredible story.Mike’s arrest and life sentence for the murder
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Pierrepoint, a film about the most prolific British hangman of the last century, opened this month.It contains by all accounts a remarkable portrayal by Timothy Spall of the man who executed an average of 18 people a year between 1932 and 1956.Albert Pierrepoint saw himself as part of the state machinery. His role, he believed
Greg Lewis 