Now the Home Secretary has at last accepted that there are serious grounds for believing there may have been a gross miscarriage of justice and he has issued a release order pending consideration of the new evidence by the Court of Appeal. 'Until the decision of that court is officially made public, I cannot of course comment on the legal implications of what has happened. But I can point out the obvious. My client has spent a longer period in jail than any other woman in the annals of English penology. It goes without saying that she will need a proportional period of readjustment to the rigours of freedom. But being aware of the great public interest in the case, she has accepted the recommendation of her advisers that she should attend this press conference in the hope that thereafter she will be permitted a long breathing space free from the importunities of the media.' 'Does that include Jay Waggs and Ebor television?' calls a sharp-faced young woman. Jay Waggs smiles at her and says, 'One question per paper was the agreement. Is that yours, Sally?' 'No! Miss Kohler, I'm Sally Blindcrake, Daily Sphere. How did it feel when you heard you were getting out?' Cissy Kohler speaks so softly not even the posy of mikes can pick it up. 'Sorry? I couldn't catch that.' 'She says she felt nothing,' says Waggs. 'Next question.' 'Nothing?' insists Blindcrake incredulously. 'After all those years you're told you're innocent, and you feel nothing?' Kohler raises her head and speaks again, this time loud enough to be heard. 'I knew it already.' A pause, then laughter, a ripple of applause. 'Next,' says Waggs. 'Martin Redditch, BBC television. Miss Kohler, you didn't apply for parole until nineteen seventy-six, though you could have applied earlier. Why was that?' She frowns and says, 'I wasn't ready.' 'Ready for what?' shouts someone, but Redditch is pressing on, regardless of the one question limit.

'But you were ready in 'seventy-six, right. And it looked like you were getting out, till you attacked and killed Officer Daphne Bush in Beddington Prison.