Things have come a long way since Mehmet's wife received a letter out of the blue in September 2022. It had come from the Criminal Cases Review Commission. She was perplexed by it. The CCRC is an independent body which investigates cases where people may have been wrongfully convicted, it read.
The court of appeal, the letter read, accepted that the new evidence, which related to DS Ridgewell's own conviction in 1980 for conspiracy to steal from the Bricklayers Arms goods depot, which resulted in a significant prison sentence, meant that the evidence given by DS Ridgewell and his officers at the trials of the Oval Four and Stockwell Six could not be relied on as truthful.
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