Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
Jimmy Briggs · 24 October 2026
Craig McLachlan has revealed the devastating toll of his years-long legal battle, admitting he hit rock bottom as mounting legal bills and professional isolation upended his life.
Luke Ings, given an indefinite detention for public protection sentence at 17 for offences that carried 21 months, has been freed after 20 years when judges quashed it as a ‘very serious error’.
23 October 2026
Laura Owens, who also received seven years’ probation, fabricated medical records to prolong relationships.
23 October 2026
In 1985, Bamber was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five members of his family. Now analysis of crime scene photographs by a leading forensic biologist could exonerate him.
23 October 2026
An Antelope Valley father accused of kidnapping his own children has had a warrant for his arrest quashed.
22 October 2026
A 19-year-old Cuddington woman who admitted perverting the course of justice with a false rape claim has been remanded in custody over the 'serious risk' she presents to the public.
22 October 2026
Brian Musgrave was named a sexual predator by Rep. Nancy Mace on the House floor. Prosecutors now say not a scintilla of evidence supported her claims against him.
21 October 2026
£260,000 sought by man wrongly accused of sexual abuse was 'disproportionate', judge rules.
20 October 2026
The exoneration of Rickey Jackson, after 39 years of incarceration for a wrongful conviction, has prompted scrutiny of Ohio's capital punishment system over irreversible judicial error.
20 October 2026
A UBC creative writing chair was fired over allegations a retired judge found unsubstantiated. Jonathan Kay on the CanLit mobbing, as Galloway's libel trial runs.
20 October 2026