When abuse is alleged, there is always a devastated victim. If true, the person abused; if not, the accused and their family. #falselyaccusedday 9 Sept #FAD
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Supporting Victims of Unfounded Allegations of Abuse for over Twenty Years. If you have been falsely accused please take a look at our website & ring our Helpline for help and support.
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Can YOU imagine why men might be hesitant to give CPR, X readers?
They made their beds, sadly
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The democratisation of 'rape' - it's now anything you want it to be, whenever you want it to be it
@hannahspierMD destroys the discourse around the Cornell 7
@EmpowerInnocent @FACTukorg
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Corrupt senior detective, 47, who accessed police records to give 'tittle tattle' to her nightclub bouncer lover is jailed for eight months trib.al/Oq18D9f
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Holding forth and protesting too much at the @FACTukorg (Facing Allegations in the Context of Trust) AGM in Birmingham last weekend
Talking about my 'journey' through the justice system over the past ten years, and new book about it Magnolia Graffiti: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HHRHHQBH
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Michael Naughton referenced the Bard in his recent response to the @ccrcupdate's rejection of the new 'Clydach Murders' app. They're howling about why they can't and won't refer cases to the CoA. Utterly bizarre. So Ol' Shakey is rattling around my brain :)
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See my new book pinned on my profile (and why I work with @EmpowerInnocent, @FACTukorg etc - but that's not why I asked the question. I was just curious :))
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" No one who knows anything about prisons thinks that they are fulfilling their rehabilitation remit. A renewed focus on purposeful activity inside jails is needed. But as increased numbers of prisoners are diverted towards probation, the service needs resources to deliver what is asked of it."
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Was thrilled to be able to give my portrait of @KHarveyProctor to the man himself at last weekend's @FACTukorg AGM in Birmingham
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'The problem for the innocent is that the rules are designed to get convictions of the guilty' (in comments)
Artist Sean BW Parker of @EmpowerInnocent spoke to @NeubergerLaw, @crimlawyer01 and @d2davison about his #MeToo-era wrongful conviction
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Would you trust the system to protect you if you were falsely accused today? Part 2 coming soon
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@franticworry @Lyn9SA @seanbwparker @FASO880221 @FACTukorg @JIMSOfficial
#falseaccusations #mentoo #justice #marshasturgeon #uknews #Scotland
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Carl Beech’s malicious lies destroyed reputations, livelihoods & lives. Yet when he was released from prison, those he falsely accused & their families were not even informed.
Why? Because we did not qualify for the Victim Contact Scheme.
I commend @DavidLammy for acknowledging the profound harm caused & engaging constructively with our campaign for reform.
But sympathy is no substitute for action.
Lady Diana Brittan, Lord Bramall’s family, the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation & I have asked the @MoJGovUK one straightforward question: will those directly harmed by criminal perversions of justice - including by those falsely accused - be recognised & protected as victims?
We sought urgent clarification from @AlexJJNorris following his appointment as Justice Secretary. Months later, we are still awaiting a substantive response.
The Ministry of Justice now says it will keep the law under review. That is not enough. We need a clear commitment & a timetable.
We must ensure that those deliberately & maliciously targeted by proven criminal falsehoods are not forgotten.
If someone weaponises the justice system to destroy an innocent person’s life, & is convicted for doing so, how can the person whose life was destroyed not be recognised as a victim?
Notification. Consultation. Recognition. Protection.
That is all we ask, & we will not stop asking until the injustice is addressed.
Thank you to @odlinggeorge of @thetimes for highlighting an extraordinary injustice at the heart of our criminal justice system.
@FACTukorg
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NEWS: The CCRC has referred two men’s convictions to the Crown Court because of the central role of corrupt British Transport Police officer Derek Ridgewell in their cases.
Read more 👉 ccrc.gov.uk/news/first-magis…
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If the police can obtain unlawful search warrants against a former prince, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s High Court victory against @ThamesVP should concern every citizen, regardless of their views about him.
I know the devastating consequences of police failures.
During Operation Midland, search warrants were obtained against me, former Home Secretary Lord Brittan & former head of the Armed Forces Lord Bramall. The judge was misled, and Sir Richard Henriques subsequently identified 43 police errors.
Now, more than a decade later, another police force has obtained search warrants that the High Court has ruled were unlawfully issued.
Have the police learned nothing?
If this can happen to a former prince, a former Home Secretary & a former head of our Armed Forces, what hope is there for ordinary teachers, doctors, nurses & others without the money or influence to challenge the police?
Andrew’s case is not Operation Midland. An unlawful warrant does not prove the allegations against him are false, nor that police deliberately misled the judge.
But it raises profoundly troubling questions about police accountability.
Thames Valley Police must explain what went wrong, why it happened and who is responsible.
The police are not above the law & justice must not be a privilege reserved for those who can afford to fight for it.
The most worrying question is how many ordinary people may have suffered similar injustices without ever having the means to challenge them.
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I lived through Operation Midland; it’s far too early to compare Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s case to mine.
Reports that Andrew’s allies are drawing parallels between his arrest & Operation Midland demand some perspective.
There are fundamental differences.
None of us was arrested. The @metpoliceuk misled the judge who authorised searches of our homes. Sir Richard Henriques subsequently identified 43 police errors & made 25 recommendations. & none of us had the financial resources to challenge those warrants through judicial review.
Above all, we now know Carl Beech was a serial liar whose monstrous allegations were entirely false.
We do not yet know whether those making allegations against Andrew are telling the truth. Nor has comparable police misconduct been established.
On 25 August 2015, I stood before the world’s press and declared:
“I am a homosexual. I am not a murderer. I am not a paedophile.”
Against legal advice, I took that stand because enough was enough. My reputation was being destroyed by lies, amplified by a police investigation that had lost its way.
Andrew deserves due process, the presumption of innocence & fair treatment by the police. But whether he has been similarly traduced remains to be established.
Operation Midland was a proven miscarriage of justice, not simply an embarrassing police investigation.
It should not become a convenient shorthand for every controversial police investigation involving a prominent public figure.
The lessons of Operation Midland must never be forgotten. But neither should they be misappropriated.
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Justice delayed is justice denied, & justice without compensation is incomplete.
Five former Barclays traders have finally had their criminal convictions quashed, after spending years fighting to clear their names.
Their reputations were destroyed, their livelihoods lost & their lives turned upside down. It has taken the justice system the best part of a decade to acknowledge that their convictions were unsafe.
The law moves far too slowly when it comes to correcting its own mistakes.
An overturned conviction cannot restore the years lost, the personal suffering endured or the damage inflicted upon families.
These men deserve more than an apology or a corrected court record. They deserve full & fair compensation for the consequences of these miscarriages of justice.
There must also be accountability for how such serious failures occurred & why they took so long to rectify.
Justice must not only be done. It must be done swiftly, transparently & with meaningful redress when the system gets it wrong.
Clearing a name is only the beginning of putting an injustice right.
I wish Jay Vijay Merchant, Jonathan Mathew, Philippe Moryoussef, Alex Pabon & Colin Bermingham all the very best.
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It would be interesting to have data of how many prisoners in every prison in the country are maintaining innocence and have done throughout.
As someone remarked to me, "it is not about maintaining innocence, I AM innocent" but still no pathway to proving it. Quite disgraceful.
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I did some research a while back. The numbers are staggering...
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The work Philip Walker has done for Jeremy Bamber’s campaign is outstanding, but his comment on Channel 5 news tonight doesn’t help Jeremy or any other victim of a miscarriage of justice.
He said; "miscarriages of justice are quite rare”.
That is completely untrue.
That is exactly what the establishment wants the public to believe, and sadly most people fall for it.
When campaigners repeat it, they only reinforce the false narrative.
Here are some facts. Let me know if you think these figures indicate something “quite rare”.
As of September 2025 there were estimated to be almost 19,000 completely innocent people in prison in the UK, including those held on remand awaiting trial.
The remand population stood at 17,700. The highest end-of-year figure in at least the last 50 years.
Of those, 6,023 were convicted and awaiting sentence, leaving 11,677 presumed innocent people locked up awaiting trial.
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Note: A proportion of those £6,023 awaiting sentence will also actually be innocent as the following illustrates.
The real wrongful conviction rate is much harder to determine. Some experts claim it’s up to 5% of the prison population. However, research a few years ago actually found 22% of cases they looked at were unsafe. If that rate was reflected across the whole prison population it would mean well over 19,000 wrongly convicted people. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
That is far too scary to contemplate.
From my own research across multiple sources I estimate the true figure is around 8%, so just on 7,000 wrongly convicted and in jail. That gives my overall figure of almost 19,000 innocent people (including remand prisoners) currently imprisoned in the UK.
Attached is a list of some of the acknowledged wrongful murder convictions in the UK since 1970. A total of 155 innocent people's lives completely ruined. And that’s just a sample of wrongful murder convictions alone.
Until the public wakes up to the reality of what is happening in our justice system there is no chance of the government ever bringing in the radical reform that is so desperately needed.
@DavidDavisMP @ClarkeMicah @EmpowerInnocent @DavidLammy @davidkurten @MoJGovUK
#JeremyBamber #MiscarriagesOfJustice #WrongfulConvictions #JusticeReform
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"While people like Lord (@JamesTCobbler) Timpson - who replied to none of my emails - may say ‘all cases are judged on an individual basis’, probation is very much failing to ‘hold the hand’ of the released prisoner"
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Clearly @hmpps does not believe in its own delivery of rehabilitation!
Again, why the special focus on PCOSOs, @AlexJJNorris and @MetroUK?
Those 4/5ths actually guilty have the lowest recidivism rates, and are those guilty of online fraud or selling drugs to kids of such less concern than someone who might have stroked someone's knee in 1976?
