Dame Vera Baird, interim Chair, Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) Robin Garbutt wrote to the then Chair of the CCRC, Helen Pitcher, on the 27th July 2023. Below he writes the same letter to the current Chair, Dame Vera Baird, hoping that she will be able to assist in his fight for truth and justice in ways the previous chair did not. Dear Dame Vera Baird, Almost 16 years ago on the 23rd of March 2010 I was robbed at gunpoint, seconds later I found my poor wife who had s
Robin Garbutt To Dame Vera Baird, Chair, Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), the Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, and the Public at Large Date: 11 February 2026 Dear Sirs and Madams, As an independent forensic investigator and advocate for miscarriage of justice cases, I am compelled to publish this open letter to highlight critical unresolved issues in the conviction of Robin Garbutt for the murder of his wife, Diana Garbutt
Jonathan King This post contains Jonathan King's response to the article by Dr Michael Naughton: Jonathan King: 'Vile pervert' or innocent victim of false allegations and sexual equality activist? Brilliant, really well written and totally accurate. You're quite right; technically and logically I should have taken a more sensible approach and should even, now, do so. The problem being NOT that I feel "any publicity" etc - which I do to a degree but not in circumstances like t
Naughton, M. (2025) 'Misanthropic Feminism: How and Why the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Sexually Discriminates Against Men in Uncorroborated Rape Cases where the Complainant Claims that they were Voluntarily Intoxicated.' Critical Perspectives: Journal of the Institute for Critical Social Theory. 1(2): 75-100. ( Click here for the article ). Dr Michael Naughton is one of those rare academics who has the ability to write with a clarity that makes his articles accessible to
Introduction I first encountered Jonathan King in 2005 or 2006 at a Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers (FACT) annual conference (now known as Facing Allegations in Contexts of Trust). I bumped into Jonathan at various other miscarriages of justice conferences over the years since then, but I didn't look into his case in any detail, mainly because he didn't ask me to: Due to the volume of cases that I get asked to work on I tend to work only on cases that alleged innocent vic
‘The very fact that she was intoxicated, even though she was voluntarily so, when they had sex was enough for him to be convicted and given an eight-and-a-half-year custodial sentence, even though the pressure for the report to the police came from her now ex-boyfriend.’ - p96 Dr Michael Naughton, known by many academics and criminologists as Dr Miscarriages of Justice, has been scrutinising the work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, or CCRC, since the turn of the mi
John Lee Osborne: The photo is of the time John was awarded for saving a man’s life who had been stabbed in the neck. John jumped in and fought off the attackers who were armed and then carried out first aid which he was trained to do. He saved this man’s life whilst on bail. Introduction This article sets out the findings of a structured re-analysis of the conviction of John Lee Osborne. The review was conducted through systematic examination of police records, disclosure
Dame Vera Baird Dame Vera Baird KC has been Chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) for six months, with one year remaining on her contract. There have been lots of fine words from Dame Vera, but has anything actually changed at the CCRC? In my experience and that of many others – no. [i] I am sure that when Dame Vera commenced her role early in June this year she was inundated with correspondence from frustrated applicants. So much so that I doubt that she read
Jeremy Bamber It looks like the dim-witted CCRC been totally duped by Nick Milbank and Essex Police. As we know, ex-policeman Nick Milbank, now deceased, admitted to Heidi Blake in July 2024 that he received a 999 call from White House Farm (WHF) at 06:09 on 7 th August 1985. However, Milbank then vacillated unconvincingly, claiming to remember very little about the supposedly routine and seemingly forgettable call. [1] The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) were aske
As reported by CCRC Watch previously, (see here and here ) the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is aware that journalist Heidi Blake reported her conversation with former Essex Police officer Nicholas Milbank in an article released on 29 th July 2024. It was immediately apparent that Milbank’s admission that he received a 999 call from White House Farm at 06:09 on 7 th August 1985 provided Jeremy Bamber with a cast-iron alibi and among many parties (including CCRC
About eighteen months ago journalist Heidi Blake of The New Yorker magazine published an article about the White House Farm murders and revealed that she had spoken to former Essex Police Constable Nicholas Milbank. He revealed that he received a 999 call from White House Farm at 06:09 am on 7 th August 1985. This telephone call had to have been made by one of the ‘dead’ victims as Jeremy Bamber was standing outside surrounded by policemen. If true, then Jeremy Bamber has a
Dame Vera Baird, interim Chair, CCRC Dear Dame Vera, My name is Michael Ward. My case reference is [Redacted] Set out below is a link to an Open Letter written by me which was published two days ago on Dr Michael Naugton’s CCRC Watch. The Open Letter comprises the contents of a letter I sent recently to Mr Malachy Bernard, the CCRC Case Review Manager on my case(s). [I requested Dr Naughton to leave blank the identity of the Case Review Manager and I am grateful to him th
Dame Vera Baird, interim Chair, CCRC Dear Dame Vera I understand that it would assist the CCRC if applicants restricted themselves to 10 points. I have reapplied to the Commission in respect of two sets of convictions arising in two criminal trials, each trial dealing with different matters. What I refer to below as “the first case” concerns allegations of conspiracy to defraud in the course of a takeover bid. What I refer to as “the second case” concerns allegations that
'The political class are in denial about having a criminal justice system that doesn’t work’ - Danny Barrs, APMI Since 2023, Drs Lucy Welsh and Amy Clarke at the universities of Sussex and Brighton, respectively, have been compiling their report into applicants’ experiences of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, or the CCRC. On a mid October evening in 2025, and along with representatives from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice, they presented th
