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214: 12 Years In Prison For An Innocent Man | Raphael Rowe - Part 2

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Peter Cowley

Diaries, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

“Q: How did you find out you were accused of murder? A: Armed police broke down my door pointing guns at me, standing there in my boxers with my hands in the air. A cigarette is in my mouth burning my lips and I go to take it out of my mouth and they threaten to shoot me.”

Raphael Rowe is a journalist and Presenter who was wrongly convicted of murder, today he joins us to share his story.


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0:00.0

If I say Victorian era Whitechapel, who do you think of? No, not Queen Vic, think more Jack the Ripper.

0:06.5

Shockingly, since 1888 he has dominated discussion while the women he killed have been dehumanized.

0:12.8

To challenge this narrative beyond the streets who work with women who sell survival sex

0:17.1

run an alternative history tour about the lives of the women that were killed.

0:20.7

By visiting whitechapelwomen.com and booking a Beyond the Streets walking or online tour,

0:25.7

you can support their work and help address now centuries old stigma.

0:55.7

If you haven't gone and done that now, you're going to have a hiding from me.

1:02.6

I think it's someone the amount of people who are wrongfully accused and put in prison is frightening.

1:09.1

Especially in the US, they think in the US it normally happens.

1:13.7

In the UK it's far worse. Isn't that right?

1:16.9

It happens so much more in the UK where people are wrongfully accused.

1:19.7

In terms of percentages, is that right or wrong?

1:22.5

I think that's wrong. I think in America the percentage of people who have not had their convictions

1:28.0

overturned. There is people on death row. I mean the consequences of being wrongly convicted in

1:32.5

America for murder is far more serious than it is here. Not to say that being sentenced to life

1:39.3

imprisonment for a crime you didn't commit is not serious. I mean if they at the time and we talked

1:44.4

earlier in part one about the headlines, at the time that I was arrested, they were calling for

1:50.1

hanging to be brought back. So had that been successful, I would have hung from my neck

1:55.9

in the same way they used the linked black men. I mean go and look at it, the newspapers were

2:01.1

calling for hanging to be brought back. These men should be hung. Because you were black men,

2:06.4

do you think it's more of a black men? Not just because I was black men but I think an element,

2:09.8

these crimes are so horrific. How very dare black people go out there and commit these crimes,

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