CONVICTION: One Soldier. One Witness. The Most Tested Verdict of the Troubles. My Story by Neil Latimer

In November 1983, Adrian Carroll, an innocent council worker, was shot dead as he walked home from work in Northern Ireland.Four members of a locally recruited British Army regiment were arrested, interrogated without legal representation, and convicted of his murder.Three were later cleared after it emerged that police had altered their statements. The fourth remained convicted, largely on the evidence of one witness.Neil Latimer has spent more than forty years maintaining his innocence in a case that has returned to court more than any other of its kind.Northern Ireland was a society at war with itself when he was convicted. Divisions remain over this case today.Conviction is his account of a life, a murder, a justice system under extraordinary pressure, and a verdict that has never stopped generating argument. Read more