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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

CCRC finds that 135 CCTV tapes from the original police investigation had gone missing and, according to the BBC, 15 prosecution witnesses pressured into lying, Shocking.

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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

'Peter's on benefits. Things we take for granted - can’t claim benefits if you don’t have a bank account; can’t get bank account if you haven’t got ID - problems you shouldn’t face having done 38 yrs in cat A prison for a crime you didn’t so.’ Peter Sullivan's lawyer Sarah Myat

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

'You’ve now to got prove your innocence beyond reasonable doubt? How can you do that if there was never any evidence against you in the first place.’ Justin Plummer, on being denied compensation after 28 years wrongly imprisoned.

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

Glyn Maddocks KC: ‘We don’t have a culture of learning lessons from past mistakes. In other areas of life, a train crash or plane crash, teams go in & work out what went wrong.That doesn’t exist - we have serial miscarriages of justice, one after another.’

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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

One applicant contacted 51 law firms claiming to support CCRC applications, received just four replies, only one could help – and they £3,800 just to look at the files.

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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

Justin Plummer believes he was framed by the police: 'I was doing that many burglaries, I reckon somewhere along the line I did a high-ranking copper’s house or a KC’s and they said to Bedfordshire Police get this sorted out because “he’s taking the piss”.’

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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

‘It will be interesting to see how Court of Appeal responds to what seems to be a more expansive approach by the CCRC. The CCRC has rightly been criticised for its failings, but the Court of Appeal played its part too.' Dr Hannah Quirk, reader in Criminal Law at King’s College

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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

During 6m of research, 1/3 of Old Bailey’s courts occupied by JE trials. 'Cost is staggering: across 17 trials, 54yrs spent on remand, inc. 19 years by individuals not convicted or not sentenced to custody. Remand for this group alone is estimated to have cost between £1- £2.2m.'

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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

Inspectors found ‘thriving elicit economies of drugs, mobile phones and weapons’ at Manchester and Long Lartin. In January, Charlie Taylor called for urgent actions to tackle drones. It was ‘highly alarming’ police and prisons had ‘ceded the airspace’ to organised crime gangs.

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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

Prof Angela Gallop, co chair of Westminster Commission, said, 'commoditisation and fragmentation' has led to the 'dumbing down' of forensics.

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

@kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social, chair of the APPG on miscarriages of justice: ‘These cases are not isolated incidents but symptoms of deep, systemic failings in our criminal justice system.'

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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

Government is never going to fix problems at CCRC unless MoJ changes KPIs - see Lord Ponsonby's depressing response to how MoJ assesses 'performance' in light of Sullivan: 'CCRC has a target of completing 85% of cases within 12 months of receiving them...'

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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

A shabby day for British justice: An extended version of this article by Duncan appeared in PROOF #4: thejusticegap.com/wang-yam-app...

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Another shabby day for British justice – The Justice Gap

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

Love that pic. On the site, we have a default pic that is selected when there's no image chosen for a story. For some random reason it was this pic - so it was all over the site for about a year...

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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

Zellick on ‘grotesque mishandling’ of the Andrew Malkinson case '... nothing to do with the ‘real possibility’ test and everything to do with a lamentable failure to understand the law and appreciate the significance of new DNA evidence’.

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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

Edward Garnier KC: ‘Does he agree CCRC needs real leadership? It needs an exec chairman with legal standing, FT salaried commissioners & better paid caseworkers. The CCRC is vital to justice system. It is in a state of complete collapse and it needs gripping by this Government.’

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

Baroness Butler Sloss told peers someone who worked for her ‘may have been unjustly sent to prison well over 10 years ago’. ‘Is it not time that the entire commission is set aside & new people appointed, with everything done as a matter of some urgency?'

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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

What we learned about CCRC: * no chair * chief exec comes into office 1-2 days ev 2m * for last 2yrs had 9 commissioners; two shy of statutory min of 11 * those 9 commissioners are on a day/week contracts * struggled to attract caseworkers to Brum cos package 'not good enough'

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

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