TWO nephews of hanged man Alfred Moore have vowed to help clear his name – from 12,000 miles away.

Stephen Pogson and Tony Moore both live in Australia, but are behind the fight to clear Moore.

He was hanged in 1952 for the murders of two Huddersfield police officers.

It was in July 1951 that two police officers, Det Insp Duncan Alexander Fraser, 46, and Pc Arthur Gordon Jagger, 42, were shot and killed whilst keeping observation on a smallholding known as Whinney Close Farm, in Kirkheaton.

The farm was owned by 36-year-old Moore and he was subsequently arrested, charged, convicted and later executed for the murders.

A huge campaign to prove his innocence was rejected by the Criminal Cases Review Commission last year but now a second bid is to be made for a review.

Mr Pogson said: “I believe that there is now a growing acceptance that the police investigation into the murder was a travesty of British justice.

“It is now very apparent that evidence was variously suppressed and tailored to ensure that it convicted the accused. Police used methods which are now, just as they were then, outside standard operating procedures; inept and unacceptable at best; probably illegal at worst.

“The British judicial system must come to grips with the reality of this foul affair. It must accept that it has presided over a compromised police investigation, and has failed to bring to justice the true perpetrator of this heinous crime.

“These past wrongs are now screaming to be righted. I call upon all who will listen and all who are able, to use their good offices in the campaign to bring some final justice for Alfred Moore”.

Mr Moore, who lives in South Australia, said he too was backing the new campaign.

“For many years I have heard the stories of my uncle Alfred’s plight. My whole family lived under the stigma of shame, with some of us moving to the far reaches of the world like Australia and New Zealand.

“I feel for the families of the police officers that died as a result of someone committing this crime.

“I have a family member that spent her whole life feeling that she helped cause my uncle’s fate on the gallows.

“To all the people that have worked tirelessly looking into this case I say from my family here in Australia thank you to all.”