‘We thought we could change the world’: how an idealistic fight against miscarriages of justice turned sour

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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When a no-nonsense lecturer set up a radical solution to help free the wrongfully convicted in the UK, he was hopeful he could change the justice system. But what started as a revolution ended in acrimony By Francisco Garcia. Read by Nicholas Camm. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:02.0	We thought we could change the world.
1:04.6	How an idealistic fight against miscarriages of justice turned sour by Francisco Garcia,
1:12.0	read by Nicholas Cam.
1:22.8	The press conference began at 2.30pm on the 2nd of September 2004 at the Wills Memorial Building,
1:28.3	the grand neo-gothic home to the University of Bristol's School of Law. Michael Norton, a charismatic fast-talking lecturer in sociology and criminal law,
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