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| Written by Robert Piercy | ||||||
| Monday, 12 November 2007 06:34 | ||||||
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BBC TV is to drop Rouch Justice after 27 years on air. The programme is to be axed as part of the BBC cost cutting as the BBC diverts funds to flagship programmes such as Panorama. In tis 27 years the programme has taken up 32 cases and led to 15 convictions being quashed. The show's executive producer, Simon Ford, has taken voluntary redundancy. he said "For 27 years a programme like Rough Justice has proved that television, as well as reporting on injustice, can actually change things. "Without a dedicated team doing that, many individuals who are wrongly imprisoned will stay there and the British public will remain ignorant of the failings of our justice system. "This is a tragedy for the prisoners themselves and our greater society." A BBC spokesman said "Rough Justice has not been on the air since April and the strand will not continue. But BBC news and current affairs will continue to investigate potential miscarriages of justice, for example the recent Panorama on Barry George and current affairs investigations into the Webster family and Angela Canning."
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