Bridgewater Four campaign for freedom

Title

Bridgewater Four campaign for freedom

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

8 Jun 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:20

Description

Report on the Bridgewater Four as families and campaigners give new evidence to the new Home Secretary Michael Howard in hopes for a second Appeal case to quash the convictions and sentences of Patrick Molloy, Jim Robinson and cousins Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey for the murder of newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater. Interviews with campaigning journalist Paul Foot and solicitor for the men Jim Nichol on the new evidence and developments; mother of Vincent Hickey, Anne Skeet. Oni Bhattacharya reports. For Drivetime show.

Contributors

Paul Foot; Jim Nichol; Oni Bhattacharya; Anne Skeet

Keywords

Administration of justice; Homicide; Carl Bridgewater; Appeals; Michael Howard; Miscarriages of justice; Drivetime (radio programme); Michael Hickey; Vincent Hickey; Right to justice; Jimmy Robinson; Patrick Malloy; Tim O’Malley

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