Bob Woffinden
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| Born |
Robert Woffinden 1948 (age 68–69) |
| Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
| Occupation | Journalist specializing in miscarriages of justice |
| Years active | 1980s = present |
Bob Woffinden (born 1948) is a British investigative journalist. Formerly a reporter with the New Musical Express, Woffinden has specialized since the 1980s in investigating miscarriages of justice. He has written about a number of high-profile cases in the UK, including James Hanratty, Philip English, Sion Jenkins, Jeremy Bamber, Charles Ingram, Jonathan King, and Barry George. In 1999, he was instrumental in winning a case against the home secretary that established the right of prisoners in the UK claiming wrongful conviction to receive visits from journalists.
Woffinden is the author or co-author of New Musical Express Book of Rock 2 (1977), The Beatles Apart (1981), Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock (1982), Miscarriages of Justice (1987), Hanratty: The Final Verdict (1999), and The Murder of Billy-Jo (2008). For many years he produced the TV documentary series First Tuesday, and has written for a number of British media publications, including The Guardian, the New Statesman, The Daily Mail, and the prisoners’ newspaper Inside Time.
Woffinden was educated at King Edward VI School, Lichfield, Staffordshire; and the University of Sheffield.
After leaving university, he joined the New Musical Express as associate editor. In the 1980s, he became aware of failings in the criminal justice system, and wrote Miscarriages of Justice (Hodder & Stoughton, 1987). He joined Yorkshire Television as a documentaries producer, and made films on legal and environmental issues for the First Tuesday documentary series. These included a film on the “cooking oil” disaster in Spain in 1981 which led to over 20,000 deaths. The film put forward evidence to show that the scientific investigation was a cover-up and that the real cause of the disaster was not cooking-oil, but organo-phosphate pesticides on tomatoes. The film won prizes at festivals in San Francisco and Venice. He also made a film on the adverse health effects of fluoride.
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