I Am Innocent – Stories from the wrongful convicted in their own words

Take a look at some of New Zealand’s most famous cases of people being wrongly convicted of heinous crimes.

Each episode features one case, laying out the events leading up to the conviction and then picks apart what happened throughout the legal process that led to the wrong person being jailed. It looks at the lasting effects of these mistakes on each subject, along with their families and communities.

“The series secured incredible access to those convicted, their families and the players in their quest for innocence. The production chose to avoid narration, to prevent a script from influencing the story, and allowed the innocent victims to tell their own stories.

The interviews with the victims are intense and sometimes frightening as you learn what they went through: not just time in prison, but the social exclusion, the inability to find work; the ease in which they were trapped into false convictions is equally scary.”

Simon Day – Sunday Star Times

I Am Innocent is made with the support of New Zealand on Air