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A few weeks back I received a phone call from a Queensland police officer telling me they had reopened a case I reported on over thirty years ago. An indigenous Australian, Kelvin Condren, was then serving a life sentence for the murder of his girlfriend, Patricia Carlton. Problem was, another man had confessed to the murder, but as I learned the confession had been covered up. I can only presume the police and the judiciary at that time figured it was better to leave an innocent man in gaol than admit their own grievous error.