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FACT Tapestry September Update
September 10, 2026
Falsely Accused Tapestry - first outing There has been a lot of progress on the FACT tapestry and we achieved…Read more...
The Firefighter & the fantasist – The Accused (Channel 4)
July 27, 2026
How an innocent man was falsely accused of rape Episode 4 of the Channel 4 documentary series “The Accused” focuses…Read more...
Tribute to Ann Widdecombe by FACT President, Harvey Proctor
July 13, 2026
Tragically, the former MP, Ann Widdecombe, was found dead on the 9th July, 2026. A man has been charged with…Read more...
Should life-altering crimes always be punished?
June 4, 2026
People on social media are always complaining that this country is soft on crime. In the news recently, there has…Read more...
False Allegations Tapestry
May 12, 2026
See also the Update to this as of September, 2026 Spreading awareness Most people who are reading this will know…Read more...
Migrants and false allegations – the tip of the iceberg
April 17, 2026
While the government, the police, the CPS and the courts have been insisting that false allegations of abuse - whether…Read more...
The CPS failure of its own Code for Prosecutors
March 13, 2026
The drive for more rape convictions has led to the CPS failing both men and women, and also the children…Read more...
FACT Update: February 2026
March 6, 2026
Comment: I am finding that time and time again when someone is found guilty at trial that it is their…Read more...
Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions – Law Commission Final Report – Part Five
February 20, 2026
The fifth and final part of an in-depth summary of the Law Commission recommendations The Law commission released a 700-page…Read more...
Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions – Law Commission Final Report – Part Four
February 12, 2026
The fourth part of an in-depth summary of the Law Commission recommendations The Law commission released a 700-page consultation paper…Read more...
The falsely accused Good Samaritan – What we can learn?
February 7, 2026
How an innocent man was falsely accused of rape After getting drunk on a night out, arguing with a taxi…Read more...
Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions – Law Commission Final Report – Part Three
January 29, 2026
The third part of an in-depth summary of the Law Commission recommendations The Law commission released a 700-page consultation paper…Read more...
Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions – Law Commission Final Report – Part Two
January 23, 2026
The second part of an in-depth summary of the Law Commission recommendations The Law commission released a 700-page consultation paper…Read more...
A Database Of The Falsely Accused and Their Accusers, and Why We Need One
January 20, 2026
This post is an update on my post in November, 2025 titled: False allegations - rare? Time to shatter the…Read more...
Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions – Law Commission Final Report – Part One
January 15, 2026
An in-depth summary of the Law Commission recommendations Why the report was commissioned and by whom For several years, there…Read more...
FACT Monthly Update: December 2025
January 6, 2026
Introduction: This a new feature to keep members informed of the tasks carried in each month. I am hoping I…Read more...
False allegations – rare? Time to shatter the myth!
November 29, 2025
10 years on - Where we are now, and how did we get here? Some might be familiar with the…Read more...
FACT Website Refresh, 2025
June 17, 2025
One of the strengths of FACT is having a website which is mine of useful help, advice, resources and information…Read more...
‘False accusation is a form of abuse too’, according to a safeguarding professional
February 17, 2025
It's unusual for those working to safeguard people from abuse to admit that false accusations can happen. Jennifer Schwirzer writing…Read more...
Retired Met Police Detective Criticizes Political Interference in Operation Midland
January 28, 2025
Paul Settle is a retired Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector. In an article in Conservative Home he is very critical…Read more...
Student maintaining innocence of rape took his own life
January 11, 2025
Thomas Wright, aged only 22, was a philosophy student who was accused of rape. The stress of the accusation is…Read more...
Judges and lawyers’mistaken beliefs about the reliability of memory may cause miscarriages of justice
December 9, 2024
A recent article in the scientific journal 'Memory' has revealed a worrying lack of knowledge about the reliability of memory…Read more...
Why it is too easy for innocent people to be wrongly accused of sexual abuse
May 21, 2024
By Dr Ros Burnett, first published by the Justice Gap in March 2017 www.thejusticegap.com Dr Ros Burnett is a senior…Read more...
Disclaimer Concerning the UNFOUNDED ALLIANCE
May 17, 2024
FACT, along with some other organizations, wishes it to be known that we do not support this organization or subscribe…Read more...
Spring 2024 Edition of FACT news
May 16, 2024
Our latest edition of FACT news is now available for download. Download FACT news here Justice cost Brian Buckle Half…Read more...
Post Office Horizon Victims May Get Justice at Last
January 9, 2024
The ITV series ‘Mr Bates versus the Post Office’ has rightly caused a public outcry. Over 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly…Read more...
Andrew Malkinson is Guest Editor on BBC Today Program
January 8, 2024
Andrew Malkinson was the Guest Editor of the BBC Radio 4 TODAY PROGRAMME on 29 Dec 2023 .He was wrongly convicted of…Read more...
BBC Reports on the Costs of False Allegations
October 12, 2023
It's not often that the BBC reports on the devastating impact of wrongful allegations. We are delighted that two of…Read more...
A New Zealand Campaigner for Victims of Wrongful Sexual Allegations
September 20, 2023
Of course, wrongful allegations of sexual abuse and assault are not limited to the UK. These are a world wide…Read more...
Andrew Malkinson’s Exoneration Highlights Catastrophic Failure of Justice System
September 15, 2023
Andrew Malkinson stood outside the Royal Courts of Justice in July this year wearing a T shirt that said "innocent…Read more...
How to hack a memory: how someone can remember something that didn’t really happen
July 14, 2023
If you had a memory of being abused as a child and someone told you that this was a false…Read more...
Why you can’t always trust childhood memories
May 22, 2023
Whether or not all memories are accurate is of vital importance to the wrongfully accused. This is particularly the case…Read more...
‘Robbed of Everything’: The Voices of Former Prisoners Maintaining Innocence, and their Relatives
May 15, 2023
Rosalie Burnett DPhil (University of Oxford) and Naomi-Ellen Speechley PhD (University of Manchester) have just published another important report on…Read more...
How Common are Wrongful Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse?
April 3, 2023
So how common are wrongful allegations of child sexual abuse (CSA)? The short answer is nobody really knows. The long…Read more...
False Accusations Are Not Very Rare; Ellie Williams is Exceptional
March 10, 2023
Like many of those who have been affected by a false accusation of sexual abuse, my heart sank when I…Read more...
The Wrong Kind of Victims
December 1, 2022
Article by Felicity Stryjak Definitions of “Victim” -1) A person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime,…Read more...
Two New Podcasts on False Allegations
July 18, 2022
A new podcast series 'The Problem with Men' has published a series of two podcasts on the experience of being…Read more...
A case of mistaken identity that cost Anthony Broadwater 40 years of his life
January 15, 2022
The tragic story of Antony Broadwater’s wrongful conviction is essential reading because, although it took place in the USA, there…Read more...
Church of England’s Botched Safeguarding Investigation Led to Death of Father Alan Griffin
November 4, 2021
The omnishambles that was a Church of England’s safeguarding investigation made Basil Fawlty’s hotel management skills look exemplary in comparison.…Read more...
Hate Campaign Forces Victim of False Allegations From His Home
July 28, 2021
How easy it is to destroy a person's life. It just takes three easy steps. 1. Make a false allegation…Read more...
Inadequate Appeals System Means No Safety Net for Wrongfully Convicted
May 13, 2021
FACT has known for a long time that the appeal system in England is failing those who have suffered the…Read more...
10,000 Views of Our Page on Coping Strategies
May 4, 2021
In 2017 FACT gave a questionnaire to its members who attended one of its conferences. The object was to glean…Read more...
The Plight of Falsely Accused People Just Isn’t a Story Any Editor Dares to Tell
May 4, 2021
The title is a quote from an article on Peter Joyce's new website 'Blackstone's Drum'. Blackstone (1723-1780) famously said "it…Read more...
How Wrongful Allegations Can Happen
November 30, 2020
In the first chapter of her excellent book "Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse", the editor Ros Burnett goes…Read more...
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies, by The Secret Barrister
November 21, 2020
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister ISBN-13: 978-1529009941 Publisher: Picador -3…Read more...
Carl Beech Loses Appeal to Reduce Sentence
November 5, 2020
Carl Beech is infamous for falsely accusing a number of high profile people of abuse, including Lord Brammal, Harvey Proctor,…Read more...
New guidance for police investigating non recent sexual abuse offers little hope for the wrongfully accused
September 27, 2020
In August the College of Policing published new guidance on the investigation of non recent sexual abuse. (Document now deleted…Read more...
An insight into the mind of a ‘chronic liar’?
June 6, 2020
An article on The Justice Gap website gives an interesting insight into the mind of Danny Day who falsely accused…Read more...
The Suffering of the Wrongly Accused – ‘We Believe You’ Video
May 1, 2020
Watch the following video to understand the terrible harm suffered by victims of wrongful allegations of child abuse or sexual…Read more...
Help needed to end the ‘legal limbo’ of those released under investigation
April 13, 2020
The Home Office are once again reviewing the operation of police bail, after the changes brought about under the 2017…Read more...
The Late Simon Warr
February 29, 2020
Most members of FACT will be only too aware that Simon Warr recently died following a rapidly progressive illness. Simon…Read more...
Police officer jailed for falsely accusing a man of sexual abuse of a child
January 10, 2020
A police officer was sentenced to three years in prison for perverting the course of justice. According to Sky News…Read more...
Doctor’s conviction quashed
December 20, 2019
A doctor who was wrongfully accused of sexual assault of a female patient had his conviction quashed by the Court…Read more...
A wasted decade in restoring balance in our justice system? Find out at our Autumn Conference
September 7, 2019
In 2009 Mark Barlow and Mark Newby delivered their seminal paper on challenging past historical allegations of abuse at a…Read more...
Why pre-charge anonymity is only fair; Ros Burnett
August 17, 2019
Ros Burnett, an academic linked to the Oxford University Criminology Department has written an article for the Justice Gap on…Read more...
‘Believe the victim’; how the Met swallowed Nick’s tales hook line and sinker
August 11, 2019
The recent conviction of Carl Beech for perverting the course of justice has been long awaited, not only by the…Read more...
The Legal Compensation Scandal
July 17, 2019
The following is an extract from an article about the potential harm to the wrongfully accused caused by the "compensation…Read more...
Good News! Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice Begins
July 16, 2019
The Westminster Commission on Miscarriages has been established by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice (APPGMJ) with a…Read more...
“We Believe You” film premiere at FACT Conference
May 19, 2019
At our Spring FACT Conference we were very privileged to have the first showing of the video “We Believe You”.…Read more...
FACT is now able to refer victims with housing needs
May 7, 2019
By supporting people who are victims of false allegations FACT is involved in all the different aspects of how the…Read more...
