LONDON A lawyer in England's latest miscarriage of justice case has accused police of using oppression and deception to trick a defendant into confessing to the 1979 murder of schoolboy Carl Bridgewater.
Mr Michael Hickey, his cousin Mr Vincent Hickey and Mr James Robinson spent 18 years in prison before they were released in February after their conviction for the murder of the 13 year old newspaper delivery boy was deemed unsafe. They are appealing against the original conviction in an attempt to clear their names.
Mr Michael Mansfield QC told an appeal court new evidence would show that police had tricked a fourth defendant, Mr Patrick Molloy, into signing a false confession on which the convictions are based. Mr Molloy died in prison in 1981.