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- Simon Hall (1977 or 1978 – 23 February 2014) was a British murderer who is notable for having been wrongly helped by 'miscarriage of justice' campaigners, only for him to go on to confess to the murder he was convicted of and prove he was rightly convicted. Hall stabbed 79-year-old pensioner Joan Albert to death in her home in Capel St Mary, Suffolk in 2001, and was convicted of her murder two years later. Subsequently, the high-profile miscarriage of justice programme Rough Justice, then produced by well-known activist Louise Shorter, took up his case and aired a programme campaigning for him. Several MPs, Bristol University's 'Innocence Project' campaign group, his mother and girlfriend were also deceived into campaigning for him, and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (which had itself been set up in response to Rough Justice in 1997) referred his case to the Court of Appeal in 2009. However, the appeal court dismissed the appeal and he subsequently confessed his crime to prison authorities in 2013, before committing suicide in prison in 2014. His case was said to have gravely undermined the claims of many prisoners who claim their innocence and embarrassed miscarriage of justice activists, having proved that they had campaigned for a guilty man. The family of victim Joan Albert, who had to endure 10 years of false claims that Hall had never killed Albert, released a statement following Hall's confession saying: "During the last 10 years the publicity surrounding the appeals has been very distressing for our family, making moving on impossible... we are also grateful to those who have helped us throughout this difficult ordeal". (en)
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- Confessing to murder after 'miscarriage of justice' activists had wrongly campaigned for him (en)
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- "There was never a shadow of a doubt that they had the wrong guy, he didn't have it in him – he's too sensitive and kind." (en)
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- —Hall's wife Stephanie, who he married in prison, wrongly declaring that he was innocent in 2009. (en)
- —Statement released by the family of victim Joan Albert after Hall finally confessed. The family had endured years of claims that Hall was innocent of Albert's murder. (en)
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- Simon Hall (1977 or 1978 – 23 February 2014) was a British murderer who is notable for having been wrongly helped by 'miscarriage of justice' campaigners, only for him to go on to confess to the murder he was convicted of and prove he was rightly convicted. Hall stabbed 79-year-old pensioner Joan Albert to death in her home in Capel St Mary, Suffolk in 2001, and was convicted of her murder two years later. Subsequently, the high-profile miscarriage of justice programme Rough Justice, then produced by well-known activist Louise Shorter, took up his case and aired a programme campaigning for him. Several MPs, Bristol University's 'Innocence Project' campaign group, his mother and girlfriend were also deceived into campaigning for him, and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (which had itsel (en)
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- Simon Hall (murderer) (en)
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