Leonard Leigh obituary

Writer, barrister and member of the Criminal Cases Review Commission who investigated claims of miscarriages of justiceAmong the first cases investigated by Leonard Leigh when he joined the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) were the hanging of Mahmood Hussein Mattan and the imprisonment for life of Patrick Nicholls. Neither, he helped reveal, had committed the murders for which they had been sentenced.As a driving force behind the organisation created to examine claims of miscarriage of ju