It remains one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in British history. Hugh Callaghan, one those wrongly convicted, talks about how he has been scarred by the ordeal
From left: John Walker, Paddy Hill. Hugh Callaghan, Chris Mullin, Richard McIlkenny, Gerry Hunter and William Power, outside the Old Bailey in London in 1991.From left: John Walker, Paddy Hill. Hugh Callaghan, Chris Mullin, Richard McIlkenny, Gerry Hunter and William Power, outside the Old Bailey in London in 1991.I
If you are British, it shakes any faith you might have in the country’s institutions of law and order, in which you might well have been brought up to believe. If you are under 45, you may know little of one of the worst miscarriages of justice of modern times. If you are older you may remember footage of their release, and media coverage of the case, but your grasp of the details might be hazy.
“I couldn’t believe what the police did. They lied. They told things that I didn’t say.” He thought the court would believe his truth over their lies, but it didn’t. In 1987, after Mullin had produced mounting confirmation of the innocence of the six in a series of documentaries for Granada TV’sseries, their case at last went back to the court of appeal. New witnesses spoke of police malpractice and the forensic scientist, whose evidence had helped convict the men, Frank Skuse, had been discredited.
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