Heidi Blake

The report said the CCRC failed to investigate cases properly and that it was excessively deferential to the police and the courts, the very institutions it was meant to be scrutinising.

Natalie and I went to talk to Lord Garnier soon after the parliamentary hearing.

He said that watching this spectacle of the organisation's leadership appearing before MPs, apparently oblivious to the depth of its failures, made him actually angry.

And how confident do you think people in prison who are innocent, who've been wrongfully convicted and who are seeking relief, those who have a case currently before the CCRC, how confident do you think they can really feel that they'll get a just outcome?

The hearing ignited public fury at the CCRC, and soon afterwards, the chief executive would be forced to resign.

The organization seemed to be in freefall, and Jeremy Bamber kept waiting.

The CCRC had now indicated that their decision would be made by the end of May, but that date, too, flew by without news.

A few days after that call, the Jeremy Bamber campaign held a protest outside the CCRC's offices.

They hoped to spur the organisation into action.

Natalie and I went along.

It was a windy late spring day and scores of people had gathered in front of the organisation's glass office building.

Jeremy's campaign director, Philip Walker, was there, handing out flyers and directing people to their places.

So have you seen anyone going in?

Is there anyone actually in there today?

Outside the building, protesters spilled off the pavement onto the tracks of the tram, scattering every time the train went by.

There are a lot of guys here wearing bright yellow t-shirts that say Jeremy Bamber is innocent.

And then they have these big kind of kite banners that say innocent and failed by the CCRC.

Philip had lined up a whole roster of speakers to address the crowd.

One by one the protesters took to the microphone.

They spoke for more than an hour, talking to an empty building.