Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
Prison Suicides
How many of these prison suicides were of people “convicted” either by majority verdict or of a serious offence but without a jury? There have always been people in prison who have protested their innocence, sometimes truthfully. But there are now probably huge numbers who really are innocent, including considerable numbers who, having been “convicted” by majority verdict, have by definition not been convicted beyond reasonable doubt.
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