A Bureau investigation reveals that some of the worst miscarriages of justice in history have arisen when prison informants give false testimony as a result of powerful incentives offered by the police and prosecution. The Bureau looked at all murder cases referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), an
Murderers, armed gangsters and international drug dealers are among the serious offenders having their time in prison cut by up to 90% in return for turning ‘supergrass’, an investigation by the Bureau for the BBC’s Panorama has found. Such rewards have been given despite the fact that on a number of occasions, the informer’s reliability has
Tonight’s Unreported World, the first of a new series, gives a horrifying insight into the atrocities committed against the people of Sudan by their government. President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur, is waging an unrelenting genocidal campaign against civilians in the south of the country,
