The extraordinary case of Gary Mills and Tony Poole is in the news again. After fourteen years of wrongful imprisonment – the last seven because senior judges did not know or ignored the law – they were freed in June 2003. The main reason for the quashing of their convictions was the cumulative effect of the lack of integrity of the inquiry. More than four years ago they lodged a complaint with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) alleging criminal conduct by police. They claimed that the number two in the inquiry – former Detective Inspector Trevor Gladding – had perverted the course of justice and perjured himself. Allegations of serious malpractice were made against other officers as well. Two different sets of appeal judges: a high court jury and a former Lord Chief Justice were far from impressed with Gladding’s conduct. Eventually, the Criminal Cases Review Commission also declared itself dissatisfied with the the effect that several instances of police malpractice could have had on the safety of the convictions and referred it back to the Court of Criminal Appeal, which heard it in 2003.