Levi Bellfield is one of the most odious inmates in Britain’s prisons as well as one of the most dangerous. In 2003 and 2004 he murdered two young women in South London, hitting them over the head with a hammer just because. Also in 2004 he ran down teenager Kate Sheedy in a heavy estate […]
Miscarriages of justice are far more common than is generally believed, even with due process and strict rules about the admissibility of evidence. They also affect some of the most unlikely people.
Michael Stone is Britain’s longest serving miscarriage of justice prisoner. (He is not to be confused with the convicted multiple murderer Michael Stone from Northern Ireland).
Two murderers from the 1980s have been back in the news recently, while a man who committed a murder in 2018 has just been convicted.
If you are neither domiciled in the UK nor a crime buff, the name Jeremy Bamber may not be familiar to you, but in August 1985, Bamber slaughtered his entire family in a bid to get his hands on the family fortune, and he nearly got away with it.
