Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
False Allegations Hub · 5 November 2026
Carl Beech was freed in February and the men he falsely accused were never told. Lady Brittan on the campaign to have the falsely accused recognised in law.
Former defendant Annabel Lyon testifies about her involvement in the fallout from unsubstantiated rape allegations
4 November 2026
Warrington man Ryan Hampson campaigns to change law after forged DNA results falsely named him as a child’s father for more than two years.
4 November 2026
A woman who accused an international football team member of sexual assault at a central Auckland hotel has been charged with making a false statement after police found the claim unsubstantiated.
4 November 2026
Convicted at 18 on a rigged photo array, refused a new trial after the real attacker confessed, cleared only because evidence survived by accident.
3 November 2026
John Anthony Holmes spent more than 17 years in Virginia prisons before the Court of Appeals vacated all eight of his convictions after his daughters recanted.
2 November 2026
The Independent has repeatedly called for all remaining IPP and DPP prisoners to have their sentences reviewed
2 November 2026
Allan Avery, the father of Making a Murderer's Steven Avery, has died at the age of 89 - and he continued to be son's 'strongest supporter' right up until the end
2 November 2026
Father says family felt officers did ‘not tell the truth’ about what happened after handcuffed teenager bled to death
2 November 2026
The defense in the Russell Brand trial has said the Channel 4 documentary and Times report "poisoned the well of justice."
2 November 2026