The Post Office scandal has dragged on for so long, been so traumatising for its survivors, and has – albeit latterly – provoked such public outrage that the pressure to cut the Gordian knot has grown irresistible. The recent ITV series, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, provoked a visceral reaction to the plight of hundreds of innocent people who …
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Opposing the setting up of a committee to examine the regulatory mechanism post the Hindenburg-Adani allegations, the Congress on Thursday said any panel other than a Joint Parliamentary Committee would be an “exercise in legitimisation and exoneration”. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, in a statement, said that the proposal before the Supreme Court to set up a committee by the …
ST. LOUIS — Lamar Johnson has wrongly spent nearly three decades in prison for a St. Louis killing after a witness was coerced into falsely identifying him as the shooter, an attorney for the local prosecutor’s office told a judge Monday. Kim Gardner, who leads the same St. Louis circuit attorney’s office that secured Johnson’s 1995 murder conviction, believes he …
