Oliver Campbell spent 30 years trying to clear his name after being wrongly convicted of murder. He spent more than a decade in seven different prisons for a crime he didn’t commit.
In this new podcast created by the Manchester Innocence Project, you’ll hear how Oliver suffered a brain injury when he was a baby – which affected his memory and meant he was vulnerable to manipulation.
His legal team said a confession at the time was made amid the immense stress of 14 interviews by police… and the evidence against him didn’t add up.
Wrongfully imprisoned in 1991 for murdering a shopkeeper in East London, Campbell spent 11 years in prison. The conviction followed ‘dangerous’ police interview tactics – interviewed 14 times he admitted to the shooting during the 11th interview, many of which took place without his lawyer present. Lawyers called his confession ‘a tissue of nonsense’ containing many incorrect details, many that were themselves undermined by police intelligence.
Glyn Maddocks KC, a Director of the Future Justice Project, has been supporting Campbell to overturn his conviction.
