The Overturn Podcast - Inside Miscarriage Of Justice Campaigns

According to The Innocence Project, estimates suggest that between 2% and 10% of convicted individuals in U.S. prisons are innocent, which translates to approximately 46,000 to over 230,000 people out of the roughly 2.3 million incarcerated, according to various studies. While the exact number is impossible to know, even a conservative 1% estimate indicates over 20,000 innocent people are incarcerated.

Clearly, there is a great need for someone or an organization to investigate the criminal justice system, whether in the U.S. or the U.K.

The Overturn is a new podcast focused on miscarriages of justice, produced and hosted by Marnie Duke for The Justice Gap. It highlights cases of wrongfully convicted individuals, supported by The Future Justice Project. The series explores legal failures, often featuring stories from the book Guilty Until Proven Innocent.

 The podcast highlights the human impact of flawed justice systems and advocacy for those in prison.

The Overturn brings listeners into the real-life battles of people fighting on behalf of loved ones they believe have suffered grave miscarriages of justice. The series goes shoulder-to-shoulder with those on the outside as they campaign for those on the inside. In the face of a dysfunctional criminal appeals system, they refuse to stop fighting to clear their loved ones’ names.

From families contesting the convictions of teenagers jailed for conspiracy to murder over group-chat messages, to a former police officer who alleges he’s been stitched up by colleagues, to
relatives of four men claiming a corrupt undercover sting led to their terrorism convictions, The Overturn brings their fight for justice to the forefront with journalistic resolve and critical urgency.

The series highlights potential police corruption to secure dodgy convictions, the discredited testimony of prison cell snitches, and murder convictions so dubious that even the victim’s family
believe the wrong man went down.

But above all, it highlights the courage – and loneliness – of fighting a broken justice system. These are the stories of people who maintain they’re innocent and yet remain in prison, fighting unimaginable odds to win justice in a system that – many would say – is rigged against them.

Cases like the Post Office Horizon scandal and the wrongful conviction of Andy Malkinson have drawn huge public attention, seemingly evidence of rare examples of the system getting it
wrong. However, every year, about 1,500 people write to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, having been convicted of a crime but claiming innocence. That is the only organization with
the power to send a case back to the Court of Appeal. Last year, only 1.5% of those cases got sent back to the courts, and of the tiny number of wrongful convictions that are actually overturned, almost all are refused compensation. 

The Overturn is produced and hosted by Marnie Duke. Executive producers are Jon Robins and Calum McRae. The series has been supported by The Future Justice Project, a charity set up by
Glyn Maddocks KC, Barry Sheerman MP and Jon Robins in 2021 as a result of growing concerns about miscarriages of justice. 

All interviews by Marnie Duke are original. The cases in this series
have all been featured over the years on the Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) and (in the case of episodes 3 and 7) in Jon’s book Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Biteback, 2018).

Marnie Duke won silver Best New Producer at the 2025 Audio Production Awards and is the silver Rising Star at the British Podcast Awards 2025. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Women’s Podcast Awards and the Independent Podcast Awards.

By their nature, miscarriage of justice cases are complex - most are never resolved, and those that are take years, even decades, to come to that resolution. In The Overturn, there are cases that Glyn and Jon have been supporting for many years. For example, Glyn has been Oliver Campbell's lawyer for more than 30 years, and Jon first wrote about the Danny Major case more than a decade ago. This series reflects that work, as well as the work of a small number of organizations fighting on behalf of innocent people who have been wrongly convicted.
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Episode 1
Robin Garbutt: Innocent Robbery Victim or Cold-Blooded Killer?
Robin Garbutt and his wife Diana lived a quiet life – running a post office in the idyllic village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire. That was until 2010, when Diana was murdered in their home. In this
In this episode, we attempt to uncover what really happened and question whether findings from the Post Office Inquiry could shed new light on the case.

Episode 2
The Birmingham Four: Terrorist Masterminds or Victims of a Fit-Up?
In 2017, four men were jailed for life for planning a terrorist attack after being caught in an undercover police sting. Their lawyers insist that their case continues to raise troubling questions about police behavior. In this episode, we travel to Birmingham to find out why.

Episode 3
Mark “Ozzy” Osbourne: Accused of Murder while Behind Bars
In 2009, Mark “Ozzy” Osbourne was convicted of murder, despite the fact that he was in prison for an unrelated lesser offense when the killing occurred. In this episode, we speak about his childhood
Neighbor Julie about what she believes really happened. 

Check out The Overturn. If you like true-crime podcasts, this show goes one important step further. It reveals how many people are convicted who didn't commit "the crime."