In 1970 Howard Stamp, a retarded twenty year old, was convicted on disputed evidence of brutally murdering his grandmother in her Dorset home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hatred and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he was innocent?

When anthropologist Dr Jonathan Hughes re-examines Stamp’s case for a book on injustice, his research into the written evidence leads him to believe that Stamp was wrongly convicted.

George Gardner has been trying to bring Stamp’s case to public attention for years and has unearthed new evidence that might exonerate him.

On the face of it, there is a no similarity between the illiterate Stamp and the highly educated Hughes, yet their lives resonate through their damaged childhoods and their mutual sense of exclusion. But if a dangerous killer is still at large then Gardner must first help Jonathan defeat his own demons...

Read by Greg Wise.

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