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Welsh Labour come out fighting to win by-election
SECRET documents implicating a former Tory prime minister, spooks and senior cops in colluding to secure convictions against the Shrewsbury Pickets were sensationally revealed in Parliament yesterday.
The government has cited national security concerns as the reason it cannot release classified documents that could help overturn convictions against 24 builders, including jailed pair Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren.
But shadow home secretary Andy Burnham blew the case wide open by exposing previously unseen documents in a parliamentary debate on the historic injustice.
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
