A Very British Conspiracy - the story of the Campaign for Justice for the Shrewsbury 24
The book tells the full story of the state-led prosecution of striking building workers and the long running campaign to overturn this miscarriage o
f justice. It reveals how the state used the criminal justice system to secure convictions and how, in the absence of hard evidence, the police and prosecution went to extraordinary lengths to criminalise trade unionists.
Eileen Turnbull was the voluntary researcher for the campaign who uncovered the evidence that would get the pickets’ convictions overturned. The book explores the government and police documents that revealed the careful planning of the prosecution of the 24 strikers.
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