Roz Purcell

And I pulled myself inside out.

Very personal things in there which I deeply regret.

Because the prisoner gets to read them.

Bernie and Kathleen wrote their submissions in the knowledge that John Shaw was allowed to read all of what they submitted.

That's just part of the process.

And then we had a meeting over in the parole boards.

A lovely lady and a gentleman sat in front of them and thought, that's it, we've done our very best now.

There's no way he'll get parole.

That was April 2023.

Then, a few months later, solicitor Amy McComiskey received alarming news.

In August 23, I received a phone call from the parole board to say that...

There was an error in the information that they had been provided with, in fairness.

Remember, Elizabeth's siblings grew up believing that John Shaw had been convicted on all charges relating to their sister Elizabeth.

And on top of that, somewhere in the state records, it was written that Shaw was in prison for Elizabeth's murder.

Until now.

As we told you in the last episode, what we now know happened is that the DPP had at some stage in the late 1970s entered a nollie prosequi, suspending the trial against John Shaw on all charges relating to Elizabeth.

It got to the stage that the lie was told so many times that everybody believes it's true.

You know, they're in jail for Liz.

Not one day has been served for Elizabeth in all that time.

The lie was so well established that even the parole board themselves didn't know about it.