Bob Woffinden is a British investigative journalist. Formerly a reporter with the New Musical Express, Woffinden has specialized since the 1980s in investigating miscarriages of justice. He has written about a number of high-profile cases in the UK, including James Hanratty, Philip English, Sion Jenkins, Jeremy Bamber, Charles Ingram, Jonathan King, and Barry George. In 1999, he was instrumental in winning a case against the home secretary that established the right of prisoners in the UK claiming wrongful conviction to receive visits from journalists. Woffinden is the author or co-author of New Musical Express Book of Rock 2, The Beatles Apart, Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, Miscarriages of Justice, Hanratty: The Final Verdict, and The Murder of Billy-Jo. For many years he produced the TV documentary series First Tuesday, and has written for a number of British publications, including The Guardian, the New Statesman, The Daily Mail, and the prisoners? newspaper, Inside Time. 

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