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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

PROOF is back. Issue #7 out now: Cover-ups, jailhouse snitches & scapegoats. Check out here: thejusticegap.com/cover-ups-ja... . Order your copy now thejusticegap.com/shop

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

MoJ scraps policy of destroying court records after seven years: MoJ confirms to academic Brian Thornton that trial records will be kept as long as the prison sentence – possibly indefinitely. A surprising (and belated) victory for the Open Justice Charter thejusticegap.com/open-justice...

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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Our latest report in the @justicegap.bsky.social highlights how the government, police and courts decontextualised the riots, severing them from issues of structural discrimination and systemic racism. www.thejusticegap.com/courts-downp...

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Courts downplayed racism of 2024 riots treating far right violence as ‘mindless thuggery’, says IRR study – The Justice Gap

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Kim Johnson MP @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"It has been ten years since the Supreme Court admitted that the law on joint enterprise had ‘taken a wrong turn." As we mark ten years since the Jogee ruling, I’ve written in @justicegap.bsky.social about why justice cannot wait another ten years 👇 www.thejusticegap.com/kim-johnson-...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Turns out 'the man with no alibi' always had one: Dorset Police accused of 'framing' Omar Benguit and 'burying' alibi. BBC's Bronagh Munro on an appalling miscarriage of justice thejusticegap.com/omar-benguit...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Appeal judges accused of serially ‘failing to learn lessons of past’: @APPGMJ hears from Justin Plummer, Peter Sullivan & Oliver Campbell who spent a total of 77 yrs wrongly imprisoned - all had convictions overturned but not a penny in compensation paid: thejusticegap.com/appeal-judge...

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Kim Johnson MP @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Powerful APPG on Miscarriages of Justice event hearing from Oliver Campbell, Peter Sullivan & Justin Plummer – three wrongly convicted men who spent a total of 77 years in prison. Their stories show a system failing people twice: convicting the innocent & abandoning them after release.

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New research reveals applicants' experiences of ‘unfriendly and dismissive’ miscarriages of justice watchdog. Sam Dulieu reports on latest meeting of APPG on miscarriages of justice meeting. Pix: Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/new-research...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Miscarriage watchdog invites CPS inspectorate to review handling of wrongful convictions. CCRC interim chair Vera Baird: 'It is important that stakeholders have confidence.  We know we need the assurance of an inspection to prove that point.' thejusticegap.com/miscarriage-...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

'Bonkers' Jenrick on manoeuvers: shadow justice minister expected to call for Sentencing Council to be scrapped & reveal ‘dossier’ of 30+ ‘activist’ judges who have volunteered for groups supporting refugees or posted supportive messages on social media. thejusticegap.com/bonkers-and-...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The CCRC has sent the case of Clive Freeman back to the Court of Appeal. Freeman has served 37 years for crimes he insists he did not commit. In 1989, he was convicted of arson and the murder of Alexander Hardie after Hardie was found dead in his flat thejusticegap.com/ccrc-refers-...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

'If they thought they could get away with it again, they would’: Justin Plummer, free after 28yrs in prison, on having his conviction overturned in 2021, only to be reconvicted on word of a schizophrenic police informant cellmate & having that overturned: thejusticegap.com/justin-plumm...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

CCRC uses 'safety valve' power for first time to refer without fresh evidence: Miscarriage watchdog sends Ben Fields case back to the Court of Appeal for the first time in 30 years invoking section 13(2). Is this a sign of a newly energised CCRC? thejusticegap.com/ccrc-uses-sa...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Joint enterprise ‘shattering lives through overreaching prosecutions’: @we-are-appeal.bsky.social's Nisha Waller & Tehreem Sultan on new research into 17 murder trials at the Old Bailey, 55 defendants including 33 secondary parties thejusticegap.com/joint-enterp...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Prisons have ‘ceded airspace’ to crime gangs’ drones: ‘Overwhelming’ flood of drugs is ‘destablising’ prisons, says Chief Inspector of Prisons’ - in a category C prison a staggering 59% of prisoners tested positive for drugs. Pic Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/prisons-have...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

'Science belongs in the hands of scientists, not the police': Report on launch of Westminster Commission on Forensic Science. 'If we want to avoid miscarriages of justice, we need to have strong forensic sector - not one teetering on the brink.' thejusticegap.com/science-belong

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

MPs to debate proposal to end ‘systemic injustice’ of joint enterprise: ‘The principle is simple,’ says @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social. ‘If you did not make a significant contribution to a crime, you should not be convicted of it.’ thejusticegap.com/mps-to-debat...

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MPs to debate proposal to end ‘systemic injustice’ of joint enterprise – The Justice Gap

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Georgia joins US states legislating for miscarriage of justice compensation. Still has death penalty, but exonerees to receive $75,000 for every year wrongfully imprisoned, plus an additional $25,000 for every year spent on death row thejusticegap.com/georgia-joins-…

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

'What we want is for them [the MoJ] to appreciate how low the organisation has sunk and to revive it': @hammersmithandy.bsky.social talks to the JusticeGap about the 'hollowing out' of the CCRC - 'an organisation that continually fails to learn from its mistakes' thejusticegap.com/andy-slaught...

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Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This is my piece on the Birmingham 4 Case, which bears an eery resemblance to the Birmingham Six. Thanks loads to Jon Robins for his help – Jon wrote a great piece on them for his fantastic @justicegap.bsky.social website www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

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The Birmingham Four: terrorist masterminds – or victims of a police fit-up?

In August 2017, four men were jailed for life at the Old Bailey for plotting a terrorist attack. They were caught in an undercover police sting, and their defence lawyers insist their case continues t...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

CCRC ‘unravelling quickly’ as chair accused of misleading MPs: 'There will be more Malkinsons and more cases of that hideous nature unless the Government really grab hold of it and take charge,’ says Lord Garnier in House of Lords debate thejusticegap.com/ccrc-unravel...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

'Crime is prism thru which we see society, its anxieties & phobias': Sad to hear of the death of Duncan Campbell. We spoke to him in 2017, wise & hilarious about 'poisonous relationship' btn cops & reporters 'lubricated by booze & sealed thru backhanders’: thejusticegap.com/14672/

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Peter Sullivan conviction overturned after 38 yrs: exoneration has been called the longest miscarriage of justice in British justice, comes 16 yrs after first applied to CCRC. The watchdog expresses 'regret' for not having referred case first time around thejusticegap.com/peter-sulliv...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Former CCRC chair calls Law Commission proposal to scrap statutory test ‘distraction’. Prof Graham Zellick on the bigger problem of an ‘uneven' Court of Appeal with 'limited experience' of criminal law' & the 'catastrophic loss of confidence' in watchdog. thejusticegap.com/former-ccrc-...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

‘The CCRC is in a state of complete collapse’: Former solicitor general Edward Garnier calls for government get a 'grip' of failing miscarriage watchdog. Retired appeal judge Baroness Butler Sloss calls for 'entire commission' to be 'set aside' thejusticegap.com/the-ccrc-is-...

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HJA Civil Liberties @hjacivillibs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Former conservative solicitor general Lord Edward Garnier KC called upon ministers to address the ‘complete collapse’ of the Criminal Cases Review Commission in a House of Lords debate yesterday @justicegap.bsky.social www.thejusticegap.com/the-ccrc-is-...

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‘The CCRC is in a state of complete collapse’ – The Justice Gap

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Jenny Evans - https://linktr.ee/jennyevansauthor @onejen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My first piece for @JusticeGap.bsky.social, about the appeal this week of former nurse Colin Norris. Dubbed the Angel of Death by the media, he has always protested his innocence of murdering elderly patients in his care www.thejusticegap.com/colin-norris...

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Colin Norris appeal: another victim of unreliable scientific evidence? – The Justice Gap

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Colin Norris appeal starts today: ‘If jury had known the facts as they stand, it’s inconceivable a guilty verdict would have been returned,' says campaign chair Paul May. Jenny Evans reports on another possible victim of unreliable scientific evidence thejusticegap.com/colin-norris...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

What next for Oliver Campbell? Sam Dulieu reports on this week's @legalactiongroup.bsky.social / @justicegap.bsky.social Rough Justice event featuring Oliver's legal team and the man himself on one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice www.thejusticegap.com/rough-justic...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

'Who's actually running the organisation?' Andy Slaughter MP on the 'hole at the heart' of the miscarriage of justice watchdog. But CCRC chief exec tells Justice Commitee it's business as usual thejusticegap.com/ccrc-the-onl...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Exorbitant court transcripts are ‘a travesty of justice’: @DavidDavisMP. Tory MP quoted £100,000 for Letby transcripts 'when I pressed them it went down to £9K, way beyond the reach of most’. Justice minister Shabana Mahmood looking at an AI solution thejusticegap.com/open-justice...

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Open Justice: Exorbitant court transcripts ‘a travesty of justice’ – The Justice Gap

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FairChecks @fairchecks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

How long should a 13-year-old convicted of affray have to disclose their conviction? What about someone given a short prison sentence for possession of ketamine? Find out what the public thinks in @penelopegibbs.bsky.social's article in @justicegap.bsky.social www.thejusticegap.com/does-the-pub...

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Does the public want reform of criminal records checks? – The Justice Gap

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Legal Action Group @legalactiongroup.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

👉 Final few tickets remaining here: swiy.co/RJ_Oliver_Ca... @justicegap.bsky.social, @kingsleynapley.bsky.social, @sandyofipswich.bsky.social

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The Oliver Campbell case is one of the most appalling miscarriages of justice in recent times. Sign up for this event featuring the lawyers who've represented @Justice4ollie for 25+ years - as well as Oliver. It raises serious Qs about the Court of Appeal: thejusticegap.com/so-much-was-...

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‘So much was missed’: What the Oliver Campbell case reveals about the Court of Appeal – The Justice Gap

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

‘Nurses are being gagged. They are too frightened to speak out’: 400 plus healthcare professionals including 200 nurses call on unions to demand an independent review into the conviction of former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby thejusticegap.com/nurses-are-b...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The early release of prisoners is set to become part of the UK government’s prisons reforms, as prisons reached 99% capacity this month www.thejusticegap.com/early-releas...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

HMP Millsike has opened as the UK’s first ‘green prison,’ creating some 1,500 prison places, as critics continue to cite an end to sentence inflation as the solution to the capacity crisis www.thejusticegap.com/government-u...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Law Society has criticised plans to create ‘intermediate courts’ to address the backlog of criminal cases awaiting trial, asserting that ‘only sustained investment' will ensure victims and defendants get justice that is both timely and fair’ www.thejusticegap.com/law-society-...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The probation service has ‘too few staff, with too little experience and training, managing too many cases’ which could undermine the department’s ability to protect the public according to a new review in the wake of a continued crisis in prisons www.thejusticegap.com/under-resour...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The prisons inspectorate has reported that prison officers largely respond poorly to applications for basic requests, leaving prisoners feeling ‘frustrated’ and disrespected www.thejusticegap.com/prisons-watc...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Thames Valley Police have agreed to pay compensation to an anti-monarchist protestor, accepting that his 2022 arrest was unlawful www.thejusticegap.com/police-pay-c...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A joint response to the government’s inquiry into tackling drugs in prisons has underlined the harms in current drugs policy, highlighting that despite attention paid to drones staff and new prisoners remain the main way drugs enter the prison estate www.thejusticegap.com/joint-submis...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Government has announced plans for a major reform of private prosecutions following concerns over ‘catastrophic failures’ in the Post Office Horizon scandal and the Single Justice Procedure (SJP) www.thejusticegap.com/government-a...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

An inquest into the death of a man who died after falling from a bridge into the Thames has found he was tasered three times before he entered the river, and that police failed to disclose in initial statements that he wasn't 'armed with a screwdriver' www.thejusticegap.com/inquest-reve...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

An investigation of the Metropolitan Police by the police watchdog has found that the force doesn’t always do enough to find missing children, and continues to mis-judge risks to children of criminal and sexual exploitation www.thejusticegap.com/gaps-remain-...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Pregnant women in prison in England are three times as likely to be diagnosed with gestational diabetes, with the new data coming amid calls to end the practice of imprisoning pregnant women entirely www.thejusticegap.com/gestational-...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The government's new Crime and Policing Bill will introduce new powers for police to tackle 'low level' crime such as mobile phone theft, and add new offences to 'take back our streets and town centres' www.thejusticegap.com/new-offences...

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The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Metropolitan Police is facing renewed criticism after revelations that over 1,000 officers were hired without reference checks, despite official guidelines requiring them www.thejusticegap.com/met-police-f...

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