Your Name

Your Address

House of Commons

London

SW1A 0AA

Date

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE – Gordon Park

Dear (Your MP’s name),

I am writing in relation to the campaign to free Gordon Park, who has been wrongly imprisoned. The campaign has had the support of journalist Bob Woffinden, Private Eye magazine and many members of the public.

As a supporter of Mr Park, and residing within your constituency, I am writing to ask that you also consider using your position to assist the campaign to help free an innocent man. We are simply pushing for reconsideration of the evidence.

I am requesting that you act on my behalf. There are two things that you can do immediately:

1.Sign the online petition

2. Announce publicly that you support the campaign

I enclose a one page brief for your information, more details can be found at www.freegordon.com as well as the online petition. I hope that I will hear back from you soon with some indication of what you intend to do.

Yours sincerely,

Your Name


In Brief Carol Park went missing from her home near Barrow-in-Furness on the 17th July 1976. Her body was discovered in Coniston Water in 1997. Forensic tests indicated that Carol probably died from injuries sustained by a heavy blow to her face; there was no clear time or date of death and no murder weapon has ever been found. Gordon was charged with Carol’s murder but the charges were later dropped. At an inquest in 1998 the coroner ruled that Carol had been unlawfully killed. Gordon was rearrested in 2004 and convicted on the 28th January 2005.