Author specialising in miscarriages of justice. Woffinden has written several articles on various miscarriages of justice for national media. He produced the influential documentary programme First Tuesday for Yorkshire TV for many years. He is also the author of several books, including Miscarriages of Justice, Hanratty: The Final Verdict and he co-authored The Murder of Billie-Jo with Siôn Jenkins. Woffinden has also contributed to Sekar’s second book The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt and is a much respected journalist in the field.
Woffinden has covered several of Britain’s most notorious miscarriages of justice. He was instrumental in winning those protesting their innocence the right to have access to journalists in 1999 in the landmark case of [Michael] O’Brien and [Ian] Simms, which was argued persuasively by Edward FitzGerald QC. Among the cases that Woffinden has highlighted are Barry George, wrongfully convicted of the murder of television presenter Jill Dando and a very important joint enterprise case, that of Phillip English, who was only 15 when he was wrongfully convicted through the controversial legal principle.
He highlighted several miscarriages of justice in his books and worked with the late Richard Webster over wrongful abuse allegations including the case of nursery nurses Dawn Reed and Chris Lillie, where Webster and Woffinden helped the pair to win the maximum damages for defamation. Woffinden also highlighted the case of the Taylor Sisters [Michelle and Lisa, who were wrongfully convicted of the murder of Allison Shaughnessy in 1992] and the extremely controversial case of the Merthyr Tydfil Two (Annette Hewins and Donna Clarke).