The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has come under fire for not publicly acknowledging the Government’s bid to remove its boss over the litany of failings in the Andrew Malkinson case.
A review published in July found wrongly jailed Mr Malkinson was failed by the body and could have been exonerated nearly a decade earlier, prompting Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to say its chairwoman Helen Pitcher was “unfit to fulfil her duties” and seek her “removal” from post.
