The significance of this case is that the miscarriage of justice survived for over 30 years<\/b>.
\n1970 <\/b>Patrick Colin Murphy, Michael Graham McMahon and David Cooper were convicted of the murder of Reginald Stevens at Luton during a bungled post office robbery in 1969.<\/p>\n
Sequence of appeals:<\/b> The significance of this case is that the miscarriage of justice survived for over 30 years. 1970 Patrick Colin Murphy, Michael Graham McMahon and David Cooper were convicted of the murder of Reginald Stevens at Luton during a bungled post office robbery in 1969. Sequence of appeals: 1971 appeal dismissed by C of A. 1973 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1971 <\/b>appeal dismissed by C of A.
\n1973 <\/b>the Home Secretary referred the case of Murphy to the C of A who allowed his appeal.
\n1975 <\/b>the Home Secretary referred the cases of Cooper and McMahon, but their appeals were dismissed.
\n1976 <\/b>a second reference was again dismissed.
\n1978 <\/b>the C of A declined to receive fresh evidence tendered by McMahon following a further reference by the Home Secretary.
\n1980 <\/b>Cooper and McMahon were released from prison by order of the Home Secretary, because of the “widely felt sense of unease” about the safety of their convictions.
\n1995 <\/b>Cooper died.
\n1999 <\/b>McMahon died.
\n2001 <\/b>the Criminal Cases Review Commission referred their cases to the C of A.
\n31st July 2003<\/b>, their appeals were allowed<\/b>. In part because of a discredited police officer; credibility of witnesses; non-disclosure and disquiet as to what happened to reward money (kept by a corrupt police officer?).
\nWhole case, here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"