Appeal judges last week dismissed a posthumous attempt to overturn the conviction of a man for killing his wife who had gone missing in 1976 and whose body was discovered by scuba divers in Coniston ...

Patrick Maguire was just 13 years old when he was arrested at his home in west London along with his mother, Anne Maguire, her husband Paddy and four other members of his family in December 1974.

It has been 10 years since Khobaib Hussain together with his friend and neighbour Naweed Ali, Mohibur Rahman and Tahir Aziz were imprisoned for life sentences with minimum terms of 20 years and 15 for ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘I used to want to be part of the system but I don’t want to be part of a culture that treats somebody like this,’ Liam Allan tells Calum McCrae. When people think of Liam Allan, the ongoing ...

‘When it is politically costly for the British to remain in Ireland, they’ll go. It won’t be triggered until a large number of British soldiers are killed – and that’s what’s going to happen.’ By the ...

Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...

One of the so-called Manchester 10 yesterday had his conviction overturned for his alleged involvement in revenging the murder of his best friend John Soyoye in an appeal which raised concerns about ...

The miscarriage of justice watchdog has sent nine more indeterminate IPP sentences cases to the Court of Appeal. So far 25 IPP cases have been referred this year with more than 250 IPPs (imprisonment ...

A Kent prison has completed a new 247-place houseblock as the government expands England and Wales’s prison estate amid ...

In 2006, following six tragic self-inflicted deaths at Styal prison within one year, the government commissioned the Corston Report. Baroness Corston and her team explored the underlying reasons why ...