Press releases

  • Commission refers a further six Shrewsbury 24 convictions

    The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred to the Court of Appeal the convictions of a further six members of the Shrewsbury 24. The six cases are those of Ricky Tomlinson and George Arthur Murray as well as Alfred James, Samuel Roy Warburton, Graham Roberts and John Kenneth Seaburg. The last four applicants are deceased … Read more >

  • Commission refers the murder conviction of Gary Walker

    The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred for appeal the 2004 murder conviction of Gary Walker. The decision to refer this exceptionally complicated case to the Court of Appeal is based on new expert opinion on cause of death and the CCRC’s view that the jury were effectively precluded from considering a potentially viable route … Read more >

  • CCRC to refer 39 Post Office cases on abuse of process argument

    The Criminal Cases Review Commission has so far decided to refer for appeal the convictions of 39 Post Office applicants.  The Commission will be referring all those cases, which involve convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting, on the basis of the argument that each prosecution amounted to an abuse of process. (The details of … Read more >

  • Commission refers the convictions of eight members of the Shrewsbury 24

    The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred for appeal the convictions of eight members of the Shrewsbury 24. They are John McKinsie Jones, John Malcolm Clee, William Michael Pierce, Terence Renshaw, Patrick Kevin Butcher, and Bernard Williams, and also Kenneth Desmond Francis O’Shea and Dennis Michael Warren both of whom are deceased. All eight men … Read more >

  • Commission refers the conviction of E to the Crown Court

    The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the conviction of E to the Crown Court. Mr E was convicted in May 2006 after he pleaded guilty at Harlow Magistrates’ Court to using a false instrument with intent (contrary to section 3 and 6 Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981). He was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. … Read more >

  • Commission refers the case of D for appeal

    The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of D for appeal. The Commission has decided to refer D’s prison sentence because it has identified new information which it considers raises a real possibility that the sentence will be reduced on appeal. The sentence has been referred on the basis of sensitive information. Issues … Read more >

  • Commission refers the life sentence in the attempted murder of case of C, a minor

    The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred for appeal the life sentence for attempted murder imposed on Mr C when he was 16 years old. C was a minor when he pleaded guilty in 2013 to the attempted murder of another minor.  He was sentenced to detention for life with a minimum tariff of seven … Read more >

  • Commission refers the public order conviction of James Robson

    The CCRC has referred for appeal the 2017 public order conviction of James Robson. Mr Robson was convicted at Bexley Magistrates’ Court on 13th September 2017 of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in order to cause harassment, alarm or distress. He pleaded not guilty but was convicted and sentenced to a six month … Read more >

  • Commission refers the conviction of human trafficking victim T to the appeal court

    The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred for appeal the cannabis production conviction of a Vietnamese woman who was trafficked into the UK and twice trafficked within it. T was arrested in July 2014 after police raided a property adapted for growing cannabis and containing more than 100 cannabis plants and two carrier bags of … Read more >

  • The CCRC refers for appeal the conviction of the fourth and final member of the Oval Four

    The CCRC has referred the 1972 theft and police assault conviction of Omar Boucher to the Court of Appeal on the basis of police misconduct. Mr Boucher was one of the so-called Oval Four co-defendants. The four men, Winston Trew, Sterling Christie, George Griffiths and Omar Boucher , were convicted together at the Old Bailey … Read more >