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Mourners for Shrewsbury 24's Arthur Murray urge Starmer to release secret files
Shrewsbury Picket campaigners at the funeral of Arthur Murray

MOURNERS for wrongfully jailed former construction worker Arthur Murray have urged the Prime Minister to release secret government files relating to one of Britain’s worst miscarriages of justice.

North Wales construction workers, known as the Shrewsbury 24, were jailed for taking part in peaceful picketing during the 1972 national building workers’ strike.

Mr Murray was the first to submit a Criminal Cases Review Commission into their convictions, which were finally quashed in the Court of Appeal in March 2021.

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