Bid to overturn ruling which stops police being sued for failings
Daniel De Simone · 11 October 2026
MPs are seeking to stop immunity applying when police fabricate evidence or are dishonest or negligent.
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All stories →Carl Beech scandal prompts call to give victim status to falsely accused
The men the fantasist claimed were in a VIP paedophile ring were not informed of his release from prison under the early release scheme
11 October 2026
He shares a name with a Cornell rape suspect. Strangers started hunting him down.
As vigilantes race to expose those connected to the case, innocent people have been doxed, threatened and falsely accused.
11 October 2026
Anti-death penalty advocates rally at Texas Capitol, calling for end to executions
Exonerated former death row inmates and families joined a rally at the Texas State Capitol, warning that the justice system risks executing innocent people.
10 October 2026
Documentary tells story of exonerated death row inmate
A documentary about Joaquin Jose Martinez, the first Spaniard exonerated from death row in the United States after his former wife's allegation sent him there, will be screened at the Utah Film Center.
9 October 2026
Mississippi man exonerated after six trials in quadruple murder case dies at 56
Curtis Flowers, who spent more than 22 years in prison and was tried six times for the 1996 Tardy Furniture murders before the charges were dropped, has died at 56.
9 October 2026
It’s Time to ‘Stop Tinkering With the Machinery of Death’
Fifty years after the US reinstated the death penalty, Innocence Project director Christina Swarns argues that case after case has exposed its unreliability, and that a Justice Department plan to fast-track death-row appeals raises the risk of executing the innocent.
8 October 2026
Judge says search warrants used to seize property from former Prince Andrew were unlawful
Thames Valley Police have agreed that the warrants used to search the homes of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were unlawful, and his lawyers say evidence seized should be excluded from any criminal trial.
8 October 2026
The Last Time A College Hired An Obama Aide To Investigate A Sex Scandal, It Didn’t End Well
As Cornell hires Sally Yates to investigate a gang-rape allegation, Luke Rosiak recalls how Mary Jo White's report for the University of Rochester found the claims against professor Florian Jaeger unsubstantiated, and the university paid $9.4 million anyway.
8 October 2026
‘How do you fix 28 years of somebody’s life wrongly taken away?’
Justin Plummer, who spent 28 years in prison after being wrongly convicted twice of a 1998 murder, gives his first television interview to Will Mellor for the Crime+Investigation series Convictions Gone Bad.
7 October 2026