On the 18th of November, 2021, Nick Wallace stood outside the royal courts in central London.

He was there to see justice delivered.

Finally, but years too late.

It had been a long road to get to this point.

When people say, how do you sort of manage to do panoramas and investigations and all that sort of thing?

I said, well, it does help if perhaps the single biggest miscarriage of justice story of the last 20 years or more

drops into your lap while you're presenting a breakfast show on the radio.

I'm Maefe McClendigan. This is the tip-off.

Thank you. I'm Maefe McClendigan. This is the tip-off. Nick Wallace is a seasoned journalist.

He's worked for years in any number of roles at the BBC.

BBC Choice News, which became BBC 3.

And through that, I got a job as a reporter at Radio 1 on the Newsbeat service. After five years in a staff job at the BBC, I took voluntary redundancy and just went freelance. Then Nick and his

partner had children and moved out of London to Surrey in search of more space. Away from the capital,

the options for a journalist were a bit more limited.

But Nick landed on his feet.

I'd approach the BBC local radio station to see if they might consider me as a odd jobbing presenter.

And it just so happened their breakfast show was going.

So I piloted for that and they gave me the job.

Nick enjoyed the insights into local news, the banter with callers. And it was in November 2010 that a fairly innocuous exchange at the

radio show would pull Nick into a story that he'd end up covering for the next decade of his career.

He was scrolling through the radio station's social media channels when he saw a tweet that

made him laugh.

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