About

Empowering the Innocent (ETI) was established in September 2019 by Dr Michael Naughton building on previous innovative projects that he established, namely Innocence Network UK (INUK) and the University of Bristol Innocence Project, reflecting on both the positives and the limitations of those projects.

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This time, however, rather than providing pro bono casework assistance to alleged innocent victims of wrongful convictions in terms of applications to the CCRC as under the innocence project model, Empowering the Innocent (ETI), instead, identifies and highlights blackspots of the criminal justice process through the voices of alleged innocent victims of false allegations or wrongful convictions that can cause false allegations and wrongful convictions or prevent wrongful convictions from being overturned.

 

The overall aim is to contribute to fostering widespread public support for reforms to the criminal justice system aimed at preventing false allegations and wrongful convictions or to allow for them to be overturned when they occur.

 

The emphasis of the criminal justice system must be on the pursuit of truth in the investigation of alleged crimes and claims of innocence by alleged innocent victims of false allegations and wrongful convictions.

 

Only then can true justice prevail for victims of crime and innocent victims of wrongful convictions, alike.

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