Colin Norris’s legal team have hit out at a ‘Kafkaesque’ Court of Appeal for ignoring new evidence and ‘blocking’ access to the Supreme Court. A new BBC podcast series presented by journalist Louise Shorter re-examines the case of the former
The Crown Prosecution Service has been asked to consider manslaughter and other criminal charges against 54 people and 20 companies and organisations over the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people.The Metropolitan police said yesterday that it had submitted all
The seed of Lucy Letby’s nightmare was planted in June 2015 when three premature babies died in quick succession at the Countess of Chester hospital. The neonatal unit was understaffed, under-resourced, harboured a potentially deadly toxin and was leaking sewage
The second annual monitoring scheme for joint enterprise has revealed that almost one in five defendants last year was a child including three under the age of thirteen. According to data released today by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) more
Two men more victims of the corrupt British Transport Police officer Derek Ridgewell have had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal. In April 1976, Christopher Poulter and Kevin Biggs were convicted of theft of 13 mailbags and their
Two leading statisticians have expressed ‘frustration’ at the failure of the 18 month long inquiry into the events that led to the convictions of Lucy Letby to get to grips with the analysis of data. Professor Jane Hutton, professor of
Every Crown Court in England and Wales will have at least one courtroom dedicated to rape and serious sexual-offence cases within the next two years, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced on 21 September. Under an unspecified multimillion-pound investment, specialist courtrooms
