THE ROYAL PARDON CAMPAIGN 2007
Along with Steve’s widow Leigh the Metric Martyrs’ Campaign continued the fight to clear Steven’s name and the initial call for a Posthumous Pardon came shortly after the European Commission, in 2007, backed down and abandoned its Enforced Metrication agenda. Leigh handed over thousands of signatures to local Sunderland MP Chris Mullin to present to Parliament.
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION BACK DOWN
Then in 2007 after a comprehensive consultation on the European Commission abandoned its Enforced Metrication programme.
The Metric Martyrs had helped save pounds and ounces, the mile and the pint.
Tragically, Leigh Thoburn died suddenly in late 2016 aged only 43, shortly after the Brexit result leaving Georgia and Jay without both parents.
THE ROYAL PARDON RELAUNCH – THE FINAL PUSH
Now Georgia Thoburn is picking up from her late Mum and fighting to clear her Dad’s name.
Trainee nurse Georgia (right) and Neil Herron are now leading the relaunched Metric Martyrs’ Royal Pardon campaign and have written to the Prime Minister and other members of the Cabinet including the Justice Secretary to ‘respectfully request that the Government and Parliament as a whole, revisit the convictions of the Metric Martyrs, John Dove (Cornish fishmonger), Julian Harman (Cornish greengrocer), Colin Hunt and Janet Devers (both Hackney greengrocers) and the late Steven Thoburn and see that justice, which has hung in the balance for long enough, is seen to finally be done and appropriate Pardons granted.’