'A bizarre murder case... but could the jury have got this one wrong?'

The Accused: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? (Ch4)

Rating: Four out of five stars

Democracy, as Winston Churchill remarked, 'is the worst form of Government... except for all those other forms'. The same could be said of the jury system, versus other forms of trial.

Channel 4's excellent series on apparent miscarriages of justice, The Accused: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?, made the strongest possible case that a jury in 1993 returned the wrong verdict, against murder suspect Eddie Gilfoyle.

The problem is, that jury reached its decision based on the police investigation, the prosecuting barrister's arguments, the expert witness statements and the judge's guidance.