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The coalition government continued to pour millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash into discredited security firms Serco and G4S despite the fact that the firms were under investigation for fraud.
A high-powered Commons committee has expressed amazement today that the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Defence, Department of Health, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and HM Revenue and Customs all continued to award the two firms work while a Serious Fraud Office inquiry was continuing.
The inquiry was launched after the discovery that the firms had overcharged the government by tens of millions of pounds for services.
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
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