Mother of murdered teen speaks out after killer's trial took two years to get to court after delays from COVID and strikes

"We then got three or four days into the first trial in September, only to be then told we were being cancelled again because of the barristers' strikes.

Guidelines say a person shouldn't be kept on remand more than six months, but 770 prisoners have currently been on custodial remand for more than two years. In one extreme case her client was kept behind bars for 18 months, before being found innocent and released back into the community, without any support:

The report also criticised the lack of any support for those found not guilty at trial after months, or even years in jail.

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