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Shrewsbury pickets win right to appeal
THE Shrewsbury pickets — wrongly imprisoned for their role in a 1972 construction workers’ strike — yesterday won the right to appeal, 47 years after they were jailed.
Years of painstaking investigations and research by the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign have unearthed new evidence to persuade the Criminal Cases Review Commission to refer the convictions to the Court of Appeal.
The investigation was led by the campaign’s researcher and secretary Eileen Turnbull, who travelled the country to find fresh evidence to persuade the CCRC to refer the case to the court.
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