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Dr Michael Naughton talks to BBC about Simon Hall's admission of murder after a decade of maintaining innocence

13 August 2013

Dr Michael Naughton, Reader in Sociology and Law with joint appointments in the Department of Sociology and the School of Law, has given a number of interviews to national and local BBC radio stations on Simon Hall's admission to the murder of Joan Albert after a decade of maintaining innocence.

Dr Michael Naughton, Reader in Sociology and Law with joint appointments in the Department of Sociology and the School of Law, has given a number of interviews to national and local BBC radio stations on Simon Hall's admission to the murder of Joan Albert after a decade of maintaining innocence.

They include:

- BBC Radio 4 PM, interviewed by Eddie Mair, 8th August

- BBC Radio 5 Live, Drive, interviewed by Anna Foster, 8th August

- BBC Radio Bristol, Drive, interviewed by Geoff Twentyman, 8th August

- BBC Radio Suffolk, interviewed by Mark Matthews, 9th August

Listen again will be available for a week following the broadcasts.

Simon Hall was convicted in 2003 for the murder of 79-year-old Joan Albert in what the prosecution claimed was an interrupted burglary of her home. Before his recent confession to the murder, he had maintained his innocence for over a decade and had been assisted by the University of Bristol Innocence Project in submissions to the Criminal Cases Review Commission who referred his conviction back to the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) in December 2010.

For further information on the BBC News website

 

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