In ordering the exhumation of the body of a convicted murderer who had been executed in 1962, the court had to take into account the very great public concern over the possibility that the defendant had been executed for a crime that he might not have committed. It was in the interests of justice that every step be taken to establish whether the jury's findings had been correct.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Woolf of Barnes LCJ, Steel J, Richards J)

17/10/2000