Heidi Blake

Bye.

I had so far only had time to skim the document in which the CCRC had set out its reasons for refusing to refer Jeremy's case.

It ran to more than 200 pages of detailed argument.

And when I did start to page through it more closely, it made for astonishing reading.

While I was still making sense of it, I called our producer, Natalie.

I wanted to fill you in on what's been happening.

Oh my gosh, yes, please fill me in.

So the CCRC have made a decision not to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.

Oh my God.

Yeah, so they've considered this new stuff, the kind of disturbance of the crime scene, the silencer issue and the 999 court, and they're saying none of that on its own is enough to refer the case.

Wow.

OK, so.

But they've they've done this in quite an extraordinary way that I wanted to walk through with you because it's this document.

It's like a pretty shocking document.

What's what have they said exactly?

The first thing I should say is they're complaining that, you know, the New Yorker declined to hand over all of our source material to them, which is what they had requested.

Yeah, there are like 16 mentions of us and they say we declined to hand over our source material.

It says on 5th of August 2024...

The CCRC had written to The New Yorker asking for the tapes of my interviews, and the magazine had told them no, because it never turns over source material to any official body.

This is a common principle among U.S.