Twenty years ago, Andrew Mallard was released from a maximum-security prison in WA, having been wrongfully convicted of the brutal murder of Pamela Lawrence in her Perth shop.

He had spent 12 years behind bars. In 2010, Australian Story examined this miscarriage of justice.

Australian Story is an award-winning ABC documentary program, dedicated to the power of the personal. For nearly 30 years, it has profiled the lives of extraordinary and everyday Australians in their own words, without a traditional narrator. The result is intimate, first-person stories built from interviews, archival footage, and personal accounts. Compelling stories about real people that illuminate, entertain and inspire.

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