A man who tore down prison walls
Ludovic Kennedy was more than just a BBC journalist; he was also a courageous campaigner on behalf of victims of miscarriage of justice
The broadcaster and journalist Ludovic Kennedy died last week, just short of his 90th birthday.
Apart from those who remembered him for his broadcasting career on Panorama and 24 Hours, there is a very special band of people for whom Ludo, as he was affectionately known, became their lifeboat when they were lost at sea.
They were the victims of miscarriages of justice, buried and sometimes forgotten in prisons, whose misery stretched across ...
