TV journalist and co-creator of Rough Justice, the BBC series that led to several wrongful convictions being overturned

Martin Young, who has died aged 76, spent much of the 1970s as one of the reporters bringing lighthearted news to the screen in the BBC programme Nationwide. However, his greatest contribution to television journalism came through creating, with its producer, Peter Hill, the series Rough Justice, revealing legal miscarriages.

Young and Hill, who had worked together on reports for Panorama and Newsnight, were told by Tom Sargant, the secretary of the law reform group Justice, that he knew of at least 250 cases of false imprisonment caused by shortcomings in the police and justice system.