Innocent Until Heard

Wrongful convictions, how they happen and how they unravel

Keziah Thornbury2 episodes2 min of audio151 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Jul 10, 20260:4791 plays Preview

A Dingo, a Jacket and the Science That Was Wrong: Lindy Chamberlain

In 1982 Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of killing her baby at Uluru. Keziah explains the forensic blood testing that failed, the matinee jacket found in 1986 and the four inquests it took to settle t…

S1 · E1Jun 7, 20260:4860 plays Members

The Guildford Four and the Interview Notes That Did Not Match

Four young people were convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings on confessions alone. Keziah traces fifteen years of appeals and the typed notes that finally showed the police account was altered.

About the show

Innocent Until Heard looks at historical wrongful convictions from the inside of the system that produced them. Keziah Thornbury worked as a criminal defence solicitor in Sydney for fourteen years and later with an innocence project, and she is interested less in villains than in the ordinary mechanisms, a confident eyewitness, a flawed forensic test, an interview that ran too long, that put the wrong person in prison. Each fortnightly episode of around 40 minutes takes one well documented case, from the Guildford Four to Lindy Chamberlain, and follows it from arrest through appeal, with interviews with lawyers, journalists and forensic scientists who were there. It is for listeners who want to understand the law as a human process and who believe that getting it right matters more than getting a conviction. Victims and the wrongly accused are both treated with care.

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