Channel 4's Trial and Error investigated real-life miscarriages of justice in the courts' system and aimed to set them right.
Showing Season 1 of 10
Season 1
1993
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01. Mary Druhan
1993-04-08
1989: Mary Veronica Druhan, charged with double murder and sentenced to life for a 1988 arson attack on a house used as a squat by alcoholics and vagrants in Kingston upon Thames. But with eyesight problems and arthritis, was she really capable of lighting fires and escaping without a splash of accelerant on her person?
02. Mark Cleary
1993-06-23
1985: Mark Cleary, charged with murder and sentenced to life imprisonment when a ten-year old boy, Wayne Keeton, is assaulted and thrown into a river in the village of Bestwood near Nottingham. This happened despite a murderer, Philip Atherton already being identified, after he changed his story to make Cleary an accomplice.