The work Philip Walker has done for Jeremy Bamber’s campaign is outstanding, but his comment on Channel 5 news tonight doesn’t help Jeremy or any other victim of a miscarriage of justice.
He said; "miscarriages of justice are quite rare”.
That is completely untrue.
That is exactly what the establishment wants the public to believe, and sadly most people fall for it.
When campaigners repeat it, they only reinforce the false narrative.
Here are some facts. Let me know if you think these figures indicate something “quite rare”.
As of September 2025 there were estimated to be almost 19,000 completely innocent people in prison in the UK, including those held on remand awaiting trial.
The remand population stood at 17,700. The highest end-of-year figure in at least the last 50 years.
Of those, 6,023 were convicted and awaiting sentence, leaving 11,677 presumed innocent people locked up awaiting trial.
gov.uk/government/statistics…
Note: A proportion of those £6,023 awaiting sentence will also actually be innocent as the following illustrates.
The real wrongful conviction rate is much harder to determine. Some experts claim it’s up to 5% of the prison population. However, research a few years ago actually found 22% of cases they looked at were unsafe. If that rate was reflected across the whole prison population it would mean well over 19,000 wrongly convicted people.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
That is far too scary to contemplate.
From my own research across multiple sources I estimate the true figure is around 8%, so just on 7,000 wrongly convicted and in jail. That gives my overall figure of almost 19,000 innocent people (including remand prisoners) currently imprisoned in the UK.
Attached is a list of some of the acknowledged wrongful murder convictions in the UK since 1970. A total of 155 innocent people's lives completely ruined. And that’s just a sample of wrongful murder convictions alone.
Until the public wakes up to the reality of what is happening in our justice system there is no chance of the government ever bringing in the radical reform that is so desperately needed.
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