Reprieve makes recommendation on permanent board of inquiry

Reprieve Australia

30 September 2008

In 1922, Colin Campbell Ross was hanged in Melbourne Gaol for murdering 12 year old Alma Tirtschke. Thanks to the efforts of journalist Kevin Morgan and the Ross and Tirtschke families, he has recently been proven innocent of the crime and this year was officially pardoned posthumously by the Governor of Victoria on the recommendation of the Premier. This prompted Reprieve Australia to write to the Premier and Attorney-General, recommending that the government establish a permanent board of inquiry into similar claims of innocence on behalf of others who were executed in Victoria.  Attorney-General Rob Hulls has now responded to our request.

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