Raphael Rowe (born 11 March 1968) is a British broadcast journalist and presenter, who was convicted in 1990 for a 1988 murder and series of aggravated robberies as part of the M25 Three.
After nearly twelve years incarcerated, his convictions, along with those of his two co-defendants Michael J. George Davis and Randolph Egbert Johnson, were ruled unsafe in July 2000 and they were released.
Raphael George Rowe was born in South-East London and named after his father, who had emigrated from Jamaica at the age of 26.
[1] In the early hours of 16 December 1988, three masked men, one carrying a knife, another a gun, beat and tied up Peter Hurburgh and Alan Eley, who were having sex in a car parked in a field.
[2] Later that morning the three men committed two home robberies and stabbed one of the occupants, 40-year-old Timothy Napier.
[5][3] In March 1990 the three were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole at the Old Bailey for murder and aggravated robbery.
[6][7] In 1994, Davis and Rowe made an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).