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3 unusual facts about Broken Lives


Broken Lives

Renewed public interest in the cases led to several appearances in the electronic media, including on ABC Television's high-profile programme, Australian Story.

Though the information was to go into a book it became a combined exercise in authorship and citizen advocacy which led to the re-opening of the cases of both Button and Darryl Beamish and the quashing of their long-standing convictions.

The book is about the false imprisonment of two people, John Button and Darryl Beamish who were both convicted for murders that were later proved to be committed by Eric Cooke the last man hanged in Western Australia in the Fremantle Gaol.



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