Heidi Blake

Amid the crowd, I spotted a familiar face.

It was nice to properly meet you.

I feel like we have met.

It was Dennis Eadie, the wrongful conviction scholar whose tip about the Jeremy Bamber case had got me started on this whole reporting journey.

Natalie and I had arranged to meet him after the protest, and when we sat down together, he said that in his mind, the new evidence showed that Jeremy Bamber was the victim of the longest-running miscarriage of justice in British history.

Still, he was not feeling optimistic.

Edie said that in his view, the CCRC was utterly failing in its original mission.

Instead of providing the wrongly convicted with a path to exoneration, it had become just another obstacle, shielding the system from scrutiny.

In this most high profile of cases, he said there's just too much at stake for the system to admit it might have got it wrong.

Yes, so if books are for you, Critics at Large just might be for you as well.

Part 2.

Decision.

I have seen it, yeah.

The decision had finally arrived in June, and the news for Jeremy was crushing.

The CCRC had declined to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.

Anyway.

You take care.

We'll speak soon.

Thanks for calling.

Bye now.