He served 36 years for the murder of his wife and then forgiven the man who confessed

While serving 36 years of perpetuity prison sentence for killing his wife, Leo Schofield put the work to forgive the man who confessed to crime.

He turned to his faith. He supervised younger prisoners. He became someone who counted for others inside. But it was only recently – almost a year since he had been released after decades of maintenance that he was innocent – that Mr. Schofield was able to feel a “feeling of completion”, after Jeremy Scott spoke on the phone for the first time.

“Pardon does not concern the person who injured us,” said Schofield in a recent interview. “These are us who are injured and who are released from the effect of this.”

“Jeremy and I had the chance to close a chapter,” he added.

Their conversation is presented in the second season of “Bone Valley”, the podcast, the first series of episodes in 2023 of which made the chronicle of Mr. Schofield’s efforts to prove his innocence while the producers described a case riddled with errors.

The second season, whose first two episodes will be available from Wednesday, explores Mr. Scott’s confession to kill Michelle Schofield in 1987 and her reconciliation with her son after years of distance. Mr. Scott also details another murder he says he has committed, but for which he has never been charged.