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In January 1997, a quiet Manchester neighbourhood was shaken by an act of sudden and brutal violence.

Annie Walsh, a woman described by those who knew her as kind and unassuming,

was found murdered inside her own flat.

The scene left behind was one of extreme force, but very little clarity. What followed would become one of the most

troubling chapters in British criminal justice. A teenage boy would be arrested, tried, and convicted

of Annie's murder, but years later, serious questions would emerge. Not just about the evidence used to secure that conviction,

but about whether the right person was ever in the dock at all. In this episode of British

murders with Stuart Blues, I take a chronological look at the murder of Annie Walsh, the investigation

that followed and the case against Robert

Brown. It's one that continues to raise uncomfortable questions about truth, pressure,

and what happens when the system gets it wrong?

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British murders.

This case forms part of my British Murders Unsolved series, something I started back in June

24 when I covered the disappearance of Claudia Lawrence. Typically, I focus on solved cases,

but every now and then I like to highlight unsolved ones in the hope that one day the families

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