I honestly didn’t think I’d be found guilty.
I knew I wasn’t guilty, so I never stopped fighting for justice Every day for 12 years, handleless doors and gates stood between me and the outside world – with prison officers deciding when I could come and go. But as the doors of London’s Royal Courts of Justice swung open for me on 17 July 2000, I finally felt like I had won my life back and relief was an understatement. My supposed crime? Murder.
Sure enough, five months later, three judges declared there had been a ‘profoundly disturbing’ conspiracy to give perjured evidence between police officers and a key prosecution witness. The improper statement – ‘not a finding of innocence’ – by the appeal judges was a reprehensible effort to minimise the reputational harm my case caused the British criminal justice system. I stood outside the Royal Courts of Justice and proclaimed: ‘This is a real good feeling. We waited a long time for this.
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