April 2025

Scott Austic Convicted of murder in 2009, Scott Austic spent nearly 13 years in prison before his conviction was overturned in 2020, when the Western Australian Court of Appeal found that there was ‘credible, cogent and plausible’ reason to believe that crucial evidence against him had been planted. Austic was accused of murdering 34-year-old Noongar

Darryl Beamish Convicted of murder in 1961, Darryl Beamish, a deaf and non-verbal man, endured 45 years before his conviction was quashed – the longest period between conviction and exoneration in Australia. Just 18 at the time of the crime, he was initially sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment. Despite serial killer Eric

Derek Bromley A proud Aboriginal man of the Ngarrindjeri and Narungga peoples of South Australia and a member of the Stolen Generation, Derek Bromley, now 69, has spent only 45 days free from state care. Convicted of murder in 1985 on the basis of fundamentally flawed evidence, he is currently the longest-serving prisoner in the