Don Hale OBE (born July 1952) is a British author and journalist known for his investigative work and campaigning against miscarriage of justice in specific legal cases.
It was 2019, when Hale was asked by publishers HarperCollins to write his exclusive and heavily updated version of his original story about his successful campaign work on the Stephen Downing appeal case.
Hale has also been heavily involved in the controversial case of Barry George, jailed for life for the murder of BBC TV star Jill Dando.
Hale also played a key role in investigating and helping to free former police officer Graham Huckerby who was wrongly jailed for allegedly being part of a major bullion robbery gang.
During 2013, Hale began investigating an alleged miscarriage of justice for ex-Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans, who was convicted of the rape of a teenage girl in Rhyl and sentenced to five years in jail.
During the autumn of 2007, his book about the famous frogman "Buster" Crabb spy mystery, called The Final Dive, was published by Suttons/The History Press.
Hale first wrote about the Stephen Downing case in Town Without Pity (Century, 2002),[5] and revised and updated it as Murder in the Graveyard (2019, HarperElement).