- Title: Dispatches: False Confessions
- Date: 15th November 1989
- Summary: Some of the people in prison in this country were sent to jail because they confessed to crimes which they did not actually commit. The recent case of the Guildford Four - convicted of the guildford and Woolwich pub bombings on the basis of circumstantial evidence and confessions they later retracted, but released only after serving 14 years in jail - has highlighted the dangers of basing criminal prosecutions solely on confessions obtained under police interrogation. Dispatches looks at the psychology of people who confess under pressure and the new legal constraints that are supposed to prevent police interrogation going too far. Six cases in which there is either proof or strong evidence that people have falsely confessed to a crime are examined. Dispatches talks to psychiatrists, police officers, lawyers, Carole Richardson, looks at a survey of criminal solicitors and the abolition of the right of Silence in N.I.
- Description:TBA
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Psychology News LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:15/11/1989
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1980s