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June 9, 2025

‘People think you come out … and live happily ever after. If only.’ The reality of life after wrongful conviction

Faye Skelton, Edinburgh Napier University

‘Sometimes I sit in the bedroom and I’m crying my eyes out like a child’

Kim Smith, sister of Peter Sullivan, speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice after Sullivan, who has spent 38 years in prison for the murder of Diane Sindall in 1986, had his conviction quashed. PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo

May 14, 2025

Peter Sullivan murder conviction quashed after 38 years in jail – it would be a mistake to see his case as a bizarre one‑off

Brian Thornton, University of Winchester

It is the longest miscarriage of justice experienced by a living inmate in the UK.

Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Jordan Pettitt/PA images

January 29, 2025

The miscarriage of justice watchdog is failing at its only job – here’s how to fix it

Brian Thornton, University of Winchester

The Criminal Cases Review Commission is facing its own crisis of legitimacy.

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Brian Thornton
Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Winchester
Faye Skelton
Associate Professor in Forensic Cognition and Miscarriages of Justice, Edinburgh Napier University