When justice goes wrong

One case wrongly dropped and more than 74,000 wrongly convicted

Two very different — and very unusual — miscarriages of justice came to light yesterday. In one, a prosecution was wrongly dropped. In the other, prosecutions were wrongly brought.

Wrongly dropped

Let’s start with the first one. It involved the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and what it calls its victims’ right to review scheme. This allows a complainant…