54 h. ago Monitoring group says appeals court in Qatar overturns conviction of the Baha'i community's leader

An appeals court in Qatar has overturned the conviction of Remy Rowhani, leader of the country’s small Baha’i community

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7 d. ago Post Office manager's son and brother fight in court over the £578,000 payout awarded her after she was wrongly convicted in Horizon scandal and 'drank herself to death' aged 57

Dawn O'Connell, 57, passed away in September 2020 just seven months before the Appeal Court overturned her conviction for false accounting.

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1 week ago UK nurse jailed for killing four patients is denied chance to appeal

Three judges block Colin Campbell’s attempt to overturn his murder convictions at the supreme courtA nurse convicted of murdering four patients and trying to kill a fifth will not be allowed to appeal to the supreme court, judges have ruled.Colin Campbell, 49, was jailed for life in 2008 for killing Doris Ludlam, Bridget Bourke, Irene Crookes and Ethel Hall on orthopaedic wards in hospitals in Leeds. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Killers of Rhamero West mount bid to get convictions overturned and sentences reduced

Court of Appeal judges have reserved judgement in the case

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2 w. ago Conviction: The Case of Lucy Letby review – documentary probes Britain’s most notorious baby killer

Channel 4’s film follows the fight to overturn Letby’s conviction, questioning expert testimony and exposing deep divisions over whether she is guilty or the victim of a miscarriage of justiceIs Lucy Letby innocent? Or, to put it another way, is there now enough reasonable doubt to declare her conviction unsafe? This documentary’s answer to the second question could hardly be clearer: yes.Letby was declared to be the biggest child serial killer in modern Britain, though she could yet go down in history as the subject of our era’s most serious miscarriage of justice. Public opinion, media mythology and the law turn as slowly as an oil tanker. Letby could walk free or she could end up the subject of unending and fruitless debate, in a kind of permanent standoff with her accusers, like the Menendez brothers in the US, contentiously convicted of killing their parents in 1989 and still in prison. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Famous sports star, 27, killed man ‘to keep sexuality secret’ before shock twist

A famous sports star is alleged to have killed a close acquaintance after they accused him of being bisexual, but he later had his conviction for the crime overturned, then reinstated once again

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