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Students at Bristol University Help with Kevin's Miscarriage of Justice Case.

November 2008

The University of Bristol Innocence Project (UoBIP) is the first dedicated student-led Innocence Project in the UK, a pro bono legal clinic which teaches law through exposure to 'live-clients'. Established in January 2005, it was officially launched to coincide with the 2005 National Pro Bono week. The Project, which is part of the Innocence Network UK, is a collaborative venture of undergraduate law students working under academic supervision and guidance from local criminal solicitors, Kelcey and Hall. It is important to note that the UoBIP does not give legal advice as such. Rather, the solicitors provide possible avenues for further exploration. The students then investigate individual cases in pursuit of grounds for possible appeal and/or an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).

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THE SILENT WALK FOR JUSTICE

WELCOME TO JOIN THE SILENT WALK FOR JUSTICE 4 DEC 2008, 15.00-19.00.

People are innocently put to jail, while the criminals walk free. Families are fighting for years and years to get crimes that were committed to their loved ones investigated, but in vain. So many persons are missing, and so many of them are young children. Children that died have had organs removed illegally. There are victims of crimes that are not compensated and cared for. People are robbed by the council, of the Common Good Land that was donated to them decades

ago. There is violence against women, sexual abuse against children, lawyers cheating their clients, authorities withholding information and covering up, and so on. The list could be long and many of you reading this have your own severe cases to add.

You are all welcome to join The Silent Walk For Justice 2008. We will all meet at 15.00 p.m. outside Edinburgh Castle. Then a lone bagpiper will signal and we will all walk together, the Royal Mile down from the Edinburgh castle, peacefully and in silence to honour our loved ones and stop at the Scottish Parliament.

Outside the Scottish Parliament we will all put down our pictures of the ones, or what we are fighting for, and we will light our candles and put them beside the pictures.

We will all stand behind the shrine with the pictures and burning candles. The bag piper will signal and The Cabinet Secretary of Justice Kenny MacAskill, or who will be sent in his place, will meet us outside.

The man and the woman representing the Scottish people will perform a short speech, and after that The Cabinet Secretary of Justice will make a short speech. The people’s writing and name lists will be handed over to Mr MacAskill

The bag piper will signal and there will be a SILENT MINUTE for all the loved ones. Then the lone piper will play a Scottish tune.

The Cabinet Secretary of Justice will return into the Parliament building and the bag piper will signal for the journalists to step forward, take pictures and make interviews.

The pictures and candles must be removed and The Silent Walk For Justice 2008 will end at 19.00 pm

The Silent Walk for Justice, must be absolutely peaceful and silent, we will let our pictures and candles speak for our mission.

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Killer's mum wants to find 'accomplice'

20 October 2008

East Anglian Daily Times Newspaper

By Laurence Cawley

THE mother of a convicted murderer last night backed calls for the police to reopen the investigation to find his accomplice.

Salesman Kevin Nunn, 48, was jailed for 22 years for the murder of 37-year-old Dawn Walker and setting her body alight next to the River Lark near Bury St Edmunds in February 2005.

Miss Walker, of Fornham St Martin, had recently ended her two-year relationship with Nunn prior to her murder.

Throughout the trial it was claimed Nunn, formerly of Woolpit, had an accomplice, though a man accused of helping dispose of Miss Walker's body was acquitted during the case.

Last week the EADT revealed how Miss Walker's mother, Jean, was urging the police to reopen the case to try and find the accomplice in the killing.

That call was last night backed by Nunn's mother, Margaret, who vigorously maintains her son's innocence.

She said: “I welcome Mrs Walker's persistence with the police to find the accomplice. We as a family have been waiting for the past three years for an investigation into this.

“They could still be out there in the Suffolk countryside. We have actually put up a £50,000 reward - even if it means selling our home to raise that money - so we can have that inquiry.

“We want to know who that accomplice could have been. As a mother and a grandmother I want an investigation.

“I want the police to stop going into court and telling the jury there was an accomplice so they can get a conviction.”

Last week Mrs Walker, who lives in Bury St Edmunds, said: “I would call for the investigation to be reopened to find the person who helped him. We do wonder who the second person was and we do speak to them (the police) about it. I think given time they will catch the person who helped him.”

Like Mrs Nunn, Mrs Walker said whoever was responsible for helping dispose of her daughter's body was still at large and needed to be brought to justice.

A spokeswoman for Suffolk police said: “Kevin Nunn was convicted of the murder of Dawn Walker at Ipswich Crown Court in November 2006. There are no current lines of inquiry in this case.”