Issue number #7 of PROOF magazine is out now: Cover-ups, jailhouse snitches & scapegoats.
Sponsored by the Future Justice Project, it’s the biggest ever issue of PROOF – 124 pages – featuring the best long -read writing shining a light on our broken justice system.
Kate Wilson of Police Spies out of our Lives on her attempts to lift the lid on how far the state is willing to go to protect the identity of one of its agents, a white supremacist neo-Nazi.
Simon Hattenstone bids farewell to colleague and friend Eric Allison, the first and probably last prisons correspondent for a national newspaper. Plus, find interviews with Harriet Wistrich and Lucy Letby’s lawyer Mark McDonald.
The issue revisits the Free Satpal Ram campaign – a shocking case of racism in our justice system. Filmmaker Mos Hannan writes about how Satpal fought back.
Systemic issues within the criminal justice system are addressed through new research by APPEAL into joint enterprise convictions handed down at the Old Bailey, and filmmakers Jemma Gander and Fran Robertson describe how a vulnerable prisoner, Joe Outlaw, managed to put the discredited IPP sentence on trial.
PROOF 7 also revisits the legacy of the Guildford Four and the ongoing fight for the truth in feature written by by the lawyer who represented those wrongly convicted of the 1974 bombings, Alastair Logan CBE, together with the journalist who made two films and wrote a book about the landmark case. Elsewhere, Felicity Gerry KC writes about the posthumous fight to clear the name of Christine Keeler and why her wrongful conviction represents the ‘ultimate in slut shaming’. Patrick Maguire, wrongfully convicted as the youngest member of the ‘Maguire Seven’ is interviewed about his part in a new campaign for compensation for other victims of miscarriages of justice.
Award-winning crime reporter Charles Thomson brings the latest on the shocking case of Mark Ozzy Osbourne and Justice Gap editor Jon Robins reports on the case of Justin Plummer – twice wrongly convicted and twice exonerated.
One section of PROOF addresses the ‘framing of Lucy Letby’. Statistician Dr Richard Gill who helped overturn the wrongful conviction of the Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk updates a provocative article he wrote more than 10 years ago – with consultant neonatologist Dr Svilena Dimitrova: How to become a convicted serial killer without killing anyone. Steve Phelps, a former producer on the BBC’s Rough Justice and Channel Four’s Trial & Error, shines a light on how at the media framed Letby as either monstrous or else a wrongful conviction.
The latest issue is available to buy now via thejusticegap.com.
