A Rough Justice report
After seven years in maximum security prisons, serving a life sentence for murder, Jock Russell was suddenly released last December. The Court of Appeal had quashed his conviction for the murder of a young art student-a crime which was the subject of the first Rough Justice investigation, The Case of the Handful of Hair'. The programme revealed discrepancies in the case and named another man as the murderer.
The television team which helped secure JOCK RUSSELL'S release followed him during his first few weeks of freedom as he sought to fit back into society. Ahead was the prospect of huge compensation for wrongful imprisonment-but, even though his protests of innocence had been vindicated, the stigma of prison remained. Reporter Martin Young
Film editor M. A. C. ADAMS Director LAN TAYLOR
Executive producer PETER HILL
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