A brother’s 36-year fight against one of New Zealand’s worst miscarriages of justice
Alan Hall spent 19 years in jail for a murder he did not commit. His brother Geoff speaks out about the emotional toll, and the battle that lies ahead
The day Alan Hall was convicted of murdering a man in an Auckland home, Hall’s family got into their car and drove away from the court in complete silence.
“It was traumatic,” Geoff Hall, Alan’s younger brother says, speaking to the Guardian 36 years after the event. “It was like white shock – the blood has left your body, you have tunnel vision, everything blurs around you.”