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Frustration at failure of Thirlwall to get to grips with stats: ‘There is no mention of a statistician anywhere,’ say Prof Jane Hutton & Dr Amy Wilson. 'It's particularly frustrating given enormous amount of work done to raise awareness in Letby trial.’ https://t.co/yrdpZzeoN4

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Two more victims of corrupt transport police officer Derek Ridgewell have convictions overturned: Christopher Poulter and Kevin Biggs have 1976 convictions bringing the total to 15 cases now referred by the CCRC: https://t.co/QcDf7Cgf1y

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CCRC sends nine more IPPs to Court of Appeal - 25 cases have been referred this year with more than 250 under review. ‘A significant number, but only a fraction of those caught up in this abolished sentencing regime,' says CCRC chair @VeraBaird https://t.co/IlEwhl8orf

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Almost one in five joint enterprise defendants last year was a child including three under 13 yrs. According to new CPS data more than 100 children under 18 years were defendants out of a total of 188 homicide cases https://t.co/1PydpoMRvV

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Vera Baird: ‘Public protection must remain paramount but so must fairness - people should not remain imprisoned indefinitely because of sentencing that's caused so much damage. Government may well consider it necessary for wholesale action by bringing in new legislation.'

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CCRC sends nine more IPPs to Court of Appeal - 25 cases have been referred this year with more than 250 under review. ‘A significant number, but only a fraction of those caught up in this abolished sentencing regime,' says CCRC chair @VeraBaird https://t.co/IlEwhl8orf

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'We have campaigned for greater transparency around the law, particularly its impact on children. This data highlights continued data gaps and the same issues we have been debating for decades. Parliament needs to step in.' Jan Cunliffe of @JENGbA

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Almost one in five joint enterprise defendants last year was a child including three under 13 yrs. According to new CPS data more than 100 children under 18 years were defendants out of a total of 188 homicide cases https://t.co/1PydpoMRvV

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Almost one in three defendants categorised as ‘Black’ or ‘Asian’, according to statistics released by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today – however @JENGbA who have campaigned for data for yrs challenge reliability of ethnicity stats (21% were 'unknown')

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Last month Winston Trew launched Trew’s Law campaign backed by @APPEALcharity_ to enact a statutory duty to immediately review the case files of the approximately 21 police officers per year who are convicted and sent to prison: https://t.co/Pf0akSqYjL

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Two more victims of corrupt transport police officer Derek Ridgewell have convictions overturned: Christopher Poulter and Kevin Biggs have 1976 convictions bringing the total to 15 cases now referred by the CCRC: https://t.co/QcDf7Cgf1y

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Prof Hutton was contacted by Cheshire police in 2018. ‘I pointed out very firmly that the way they were looking at the question was wrong,’ she said. 'What they clearly wanted initially was almost a rubber stamp,' she says.

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Frustration at failure of Thirlwall to get to grips with stats: ‘There is no mention of a statistician anywhere,’ say Prof Jane Hutton & Dr Amy Wilson. 'It's particularly frustrating given enormous amount of work done to raise awareness in Letby trial.’ https://t.co/yrdpZzeoN4

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A brilliant piece by Stephen Phelps @JusticeGap

Our justice group had the pleasure of spending time with Stephen back in 2024 - back when we weren’t allowed to mention Lucy’s name. @Seagreen2707 @SallyHa22732881

#LucyLetby and another appalling vista https://t.co/D5dTEG2oBI

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Specialist rape courtrooms to be introduced across England and Wales: Rape and serious sexual offence trials will receive fixed dates rather than being placed on ‘floating lists’ https://t.co/FtKVTm8cqU

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Government considering making it harder for inquests to conclude that someone was unlawfully killed. The MoJ has opened a consultation on restoring the criminal standard of proof,  ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, for unlawful killing conclusions https://t.co/RoWyyrvRxb

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Palestine Action activists appeal ‘terrorist’ sentences never put to jury: Filton Four launch appeal against being sentenced on the basis of a ‘terrorist connection’ despite never being convicted of a terrorism offence
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Campaign for new duty - Trews Law - to review files of approx 21 police officers sent to prison every year. Between 2018 & 25, 13 people had convictions quashed spending 623 years wrongfully convicted as a result of a corrupt officer including Winston Trew https://t.co/dZAszl2Zhh

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‘Myopic’, ‘too early’ and ‘a mistake’: criticisms of Thirlwall inquiry costing 18m for pushing on with a report ignoring ‘swirling’ concerns over the safety of Lucy Letby's convictions within months of a possible CCRC referral https://t.co/fozABwB8NV

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Jeremy Bamber to challenge press ban: judicial review proceedings launched potentially a test case clarifying right of prisoners maintaining innocence to speak to press. Ban followed devleopments as a resultt of Guardian and Newy Yorker investigations https://t.co/V4LIFuOzYT