Of further concern is the Robin Bowles’s willingness to make suppositions (‘I guessed the police might have been hassling me in their own time, not on official duty’), to conflate fact and opinion (‘my money too was on Denis having thrown her down the hole’) and to rely on statements from unnamed sources (‘One of the police officers in the court foyer during the trial told me …’). Such reliance on speculation and hearsay renders the author’s criticisms of the criminal justice system faintly ridiculous. Indeed, some sections of the book appear pointless when compared to the work of other investigators. The wrongful conviction of John Button, for example, was the subject of Broken Lives (1998), Estelle Blackburn’s Walkley award-winning account of her seven-year investigation into the case. Rough Justice, in comparison to such painstaking investigative work, is roughed over, and will not lead to any acquittals.