This website is maintained by Alice Wheeldon’s great granddaughter, Chloë Mason. Winnie and Alf Mason were Chloë’s grandparents.
The site was initially created by Chloë and her sister Deirdre Mason as part of the campaign to clear their family’s name, as well to shed light on the issues of the time and their implications for society today.
Deirdre Mason died in 2017 after a lifetime of trailblazing activism, both personal and professional. She had been determined to overturn this miscarriage of justice, travelling to the UK several times, arranging for key records to be copied from government archives, and corresponding tirelessly with the Metropolitan Police for access to the prison letters of Alice, her family, and their friends. Unfortunately, she did not live to see the mission through.
Read Deirdre Mason’s obituary.
Chloë Mason carried the work forward, and in 2019, bringing together the results of many years of investigation, she submitted an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission asking for the Wheeldon case to be referred to the Court of Appeal and the convictions finally quashed.
Chloë continues to write and speak about the miscarriage of justice suffered by her family, as well as the broader issues it raises, from the human costs of war to the role of undercover policing of social and political movements, and the integrity of the criminal justice system.
Deirdre (left) and Chloë Mason, the great grand-daughters of Alice Wheeldon and the grand-daughters of Alf and Win Mason, marching in Sydney on International Women's Day on 14 March 2015.
The campaign to overturn the miscarriage of justice suffered by her great grandmother was the culmination of a lifetime of activism for Deirdre Mason, but she unfortunately did not live long enough to see the mission through.
The English-born Deirdre passed away in a Sydney hospice on 8 October 2017, with her brother Paul and sister Chloë near, and as she held the hand of her wife Jenni Neary.