New PROOF magazine: Cover-ups, jailhouse snitches & scapegoats

4WardEverUK • 19 April 2026

source: The Justice Gap

published: 16 April 2026

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Issue number #7 of PROOF magazine is out next week – Monday, April 20: Cover-ups, jailhouse snitches & scapegoats. It’s [The Justice Gap's] biggest ever issue of PROOF – 124 pages – featuring the best long read writing shining a light on our broken justice system.


Kate Wilson of Police Spies out of our Lives on her attempts to lift the lid on how far the state is willing to go to protect the identity of one of its agents, a white supremacist neo-Nazi.

[In this issue], Simon Hattenstone bids farewell to colleague and friend Eric Allison, the first and probably last prisons correspondent for a national newspaper. Plus, interviews with Harriet Wistrich and Lucy Letby’s lawyer Mark McDonald.

In PROOF#7, Mos Hannan revisits the Free Satpal Ram campaign – a shocking case of racism in our justice system. Mos writes about how Satpal fought back.


Filmmakers Jemma Gander and Fran Robertson on how a vulnerable prisoner, Joe Outlaw, managed to put the discredited IPP sentence on trial. APPEAL’s Nisha Waller and Tehreem Sultan expose that other great source of injustice: joint enterprise.


The issue revisits the legacy of the Guildford Four and the ongoing fight for the truth in feature written by by the lawyer who represented those wrongly convicted of the 1974 bombings, Alastair Logan CBE, together with the journalist who made two films and wrote a book about the landmark case.


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