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Jan 31, 1948 Died on 01 May 2018 (aged 70)
British journalist
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About Bob Woffinden
- Robert Woffinden (31 January 1948 – 1 May 2018) was a British investigative journalist.
- Formerly a reporter with the New Musical Express, Woffinden specialized since the 1980s in investigating miscarriages of justice.
- He wrote about a number of high-profile cases in the UK, including James Hanratty, Philip English, Sion Jenkins, Jeremy Bamber, Charles Ingram, Jonathan King, and Barry George.
- In 1999, he was instrumental in winning a case against the Home Secretary that established the right of prisoners in the UK claiming wrongful conviction to receive visits from journalists.Woffinden was the author or co-author of New Musical Express Book of Rock 2 (1977), The Beatles Apart (1981), Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock (1976), Miscarriages of Justice (1987), Hanratty: The Final Verdict (1999), and The Murder of Billy-Jo (2008).
- For many years he produced the TV documentary series First Tuesday, and wrote for a number of British media publications, including The Guardian, the New Statesman, the Daily Mail, and the prisoners' newspaper Inside Time.
