Amy-Clare Martin is a Crime Correspondent at The Independent. She focuses on crime, justice, and policing, with a particular interest in miscarriages of justice, the prisons crisis, and violence against women and girls, while also leading the campaign on the IPP scandal, Jailed without hope: Fighting for Justice. Amy-Clare's work has been featured in numerous publications, including YorkshireLive, The Mirror, and the Daily Express.
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Amy-Clare Martin's reporting has a strong focus on local crime, legal developments, and government announcements in the United Kingdom. She often covers evolving stories related to crime and court cases as well as breaking news involving legal policy regulations.
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By: Amy-Clare Martin, Maryam Zakir-Hussain
Almost 700 never-released prisoners trapped on indefinite jail terms have been held for at least a decade longer than their original tariff, stark figures show, as the government lays out plans to finally end the injustice.
By: Amy-Clare Martin
Britain’s former top judge said the IPP regime is a form of ‘preventative detention’ which has punished people ‘grossly excessively’
By: Amy-Clare Martin
The Vicar of Dibley star, 68, was caught breaking a 30mph speed limit by a camera last July
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Comedian Dawn French has been disqualified from driving for six months for speeding.
By: Amy-Clare Martin
Exclusive: Sir Max Hill, former Director of Public Prosecutions, says the bill will provide better safeguards as figures reveal most assisted deaths are never properly scrutinised
By: Amy-Clare Martin
Exclusive: Sir Max Hill, former Director of Public Prosecutions, says the bill will provide better safeguards as figures reveal most assisted deaths are never properly scrutinised
By: Amy-Clare Martin
Former director of public prosecutions Sir Max Hill has warned that the current ban on assisted dying is failing to protect vulnerable people, as most cases escape proper scrutiny.
By: Amy-Clare Martin
Assisted dying will make people safer, says former Director of Public Prosecutions
By: Amy-Clare Martin
I nside a cell at on a wing for vulnerable inmates in Lancashire, Wayne Gregory left a message smeared in blood on the wall for the prison officers who found him: “Just in case I die, IPP killed me.”
