Compelling Case

For the police it was an open and shut case: Stephen Lumley was guilty of taking part in the robbery at his uncle''s jewellery shop. All the evidence was against him - he was unemployed and in debt, he''d made threats in the past against his uncle, Bernard Hammond, and he''d tried to escape when the other thieves fled the scene.

Yet Lumley maintains his innocence, and the only person who believes h...