Not Guilty by Association
JENGbA, launches bill campaign to allow hundreds of prisoners convicted under the joint enterprise law to have their appeals heard.
Women Being Imprisoned
Women are being imprisoned for life for violent crimes they did not commit.
A study, carried out by Manchester Metropolitan University, unearthed new evidence revealing at least 109 women have been sentenced to long or even life prison sentences under laws called joint enterprise.
Joint enterprise is where several people to be charged with the same offence, even though they may have played very different roles in the crime.
Writing Our Space
Jimmy Boyle, a gay man who has suffered the trauma and the stigma of wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and who continues to suffer, daily, the suffocating limitations to recovery and restitution, imposed on his life by the institutions of state, has had two examples of his work, ‘Torn’ and ‘For You, and John Clare’, published in Writing Our Space an anthology of expression which appears under the imprint of Arkbound, a charity book publisher.
Stand Against Injustice
Read Stand Against Injustice by Michelle Diskin Bates, a valued friend and supporter of MOJO.
Laws
Find out more about Helen's Law - Killers who withhold information on their victims could spend longer behind bars and watch the second series of Conviction aired on BBC2 episode titled Murder in Suburbia, which follows the case of Glyn Razzell, who was convicted of murdering his estranged wife in 2003.
Find out more about Suzanne's Law - a Scottish Government proposal that parole be denied to prisoners convicted of murder who fail to disclose the location of a victim’s body. Named Suzanne’s Law in memory of Suzanne Pilley, who’s partner David Gilroy was convicted of killing Suzanne in 2010.
Wrongly Convicted
Read Michael O’Brien’s book The Death of Justice. Michael is one of the Cardiff Newsagent Three who was wrongly convicted of murder.
Disgraceful
The current criminal justice system is “outrageous”. We have gone backwards. It’s disgraceful. We are calling ourselves a civilised society, and yet we don’t compensate people for when the state makes mistakes, and that’s not fair. And it’s not what most people I think would recognise as being fair.” by Glyn Maddocks QC, a longstanding Criminal Appeal Solicitor
Miscarriages of Justice Organisation
Miscarriages of Justice - Raymond Gilmour
Miscarriages of Justice Raymond Gilmour
Episode Summary
16 year old Pamela Hastie was brutally murdered in 1981. 26 years later her alleged killer had his conviction quashed. Was Pamela’s real killer brought to justice?
Detectives reopen Hastie murder case | UK news | The Guardian
Dad speaks out as police probe Tobin link to Pamela’s death – Daily Record
Man jailed for murder of girl, 16, wins appeal | UK news | The Guardian
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Police review schoolgirl murder
Doubts in case against ‘logical suspect’ | Prisons and probation | The Guardian
Justice won’t bring her back – The Scottish Sun
BBC News | SCOTLAND | Appeal in schoolgirl murder case
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Appeal victory for murder accused
Hunt for missing murder suspect | HeraldScotland
Explore Two Woods: Rannoch Woods & Bluebell Woods | AllTrails
Rannoch Woods – Forestry and Land Scotland
By Auslan Cramb | Aberdeen Press and Journal | Friday 06 November 1981 | British Newspaper Archive
In Mourning | Aberdeen Press and Journal | Wednesday 11 November 1981 | British Newspaper Archive
How the UK Police Interview Suspects – Innocence Project
The Ferris Conspiracy: Amazon.co.uk: Ferris, Paul, McKay, Reg: 9781840183887: Books
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission – Wikipedia
Petechial Hemorrhage | Encyclopedia.com
House of Commons Hansard Debates for 19 Oct 1994
Other young girls Robert Black believed to have slain – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
RAYMOUND McKENZIE GILMOUR v. HER MAJESTY’S ADVOCATE
The accusing finger of Raymond Gilmour | Magill
RAYMOND McKENZIE GILMOUR v. HER MAJESTY’S ADVOCATE
GLENOCHIL WOLVES – The Ferris Conspiracy Forum
Mothers in arms: Murdered girls’ mums united by grief 30 years on – Daily Record
Scottish Murders is a production of Cluarantonn
Hosted by Dawn
Researched and Written by Dawn Young
Produced and Edited by Dawn Young and Peter Bull
Production Company Name by Granny Robertson
Voice Talent by Eleanor Morton
Music:
Dawn of the Fairies by Derek & Brandon Fiechter
Gothic Wedding by Derek & Brandon Fiechter
Proof
Listen to the podcast series Body of Proof, where it examines the case of David Gilroy, a client of MOJO who is currently serving a life sentence for murder.
Guilty
Read The Justice Gap editor Jon Robins’ book Guilty Until Proven Innocent and listen to The Justice Gap Podcast.