crime
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In 1973, the horrific murders of three teenage girls shook a community. A major manhunt was launched but for years the murders remained unsolved. Decades later, it would take a major breakthrough in forensic science to enable a small team of seasoned detectives to re-open the case. But the journey to justice was a winding
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COLD CASE FORENSICS is now available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV – as well as ITV X. I think viewers outside the UK can watch it on Prime. If you do, please let me know where you are watching it and what you think. In the series world-leading forensic scientist Dr Angela Gallop and
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Described as “explosive” by the Irish Post and an “important” book by the Guardian ‘The Death of Justice’ continues to get five-star reviews on Amazon. This is the inside story of a brutal murder as revealed by Michael O’Brien, one of the men wrongly jailed for more than a decade. The miscarriage of justice which
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“There’s a resilience in Machynlleth which says Mark Bridger’s evil will not prevail. That the goodness of a little girl will endure. And that April Jones will always be remembered.” Tribute: ‘APRIL: A WALES THIS WEEK SPECIAL’
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The Wales This Week special ‘The Bullseye Killer’ has won a British Academy Cymru Award (Bafta Cymru). The hour-long documentary won a Bafta in the Current Affairs category of the awards at the Wales Millennium Centre. The programme documented the crimes of John Cooper, one of the most notorious criminals in British history. Cooper burgled, raped and murdered
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The man who advises both the Crown and the UK Cabinet on the law has expressed his “huge regret” at the collapse of the Lynette White police corruption trial. The UK Solicitor-General Edward Garnier QC was answering questions from MPs about the collapse of a trial of eight police officers accused of perverting the course of justice during the
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Important documents, whose disappearance led to the collapse of Britain’s biggest ever corruption trial, have been found in boxes held by South Wales Police. Yesterday, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, ordered a full inquiry into the collapse of a trial of eight police officers accused of perverting the course of justice during the 1988
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A major review has been ordered into the way the prosecution in a police corruption trial was handled. Eight officers were cleared of perverting the course of justice after a judge at Swansea Crown Court ruled they could not get a fair trial. It had been alleged that the former South Wales Police officers had
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Welsh serial killer Peter Moore will be kept in jail for the rest of his life, judges at the European Court of Human Rights have ruled. Moore and two other convicted killers – Jeremy Bamber and Douglas Vinter – had asked the court to rule on whole life sentences. The murderers said condemning them to
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There will be no action taken against witnesses in one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice from the 1980s. The Crown Prosecution Service has been considering action against a number of civilian witnesses who gave evidence in the hunt to find the killer of Cardiff newsagent Philip Saunders in 1987. Three men, Michael O’Brien,
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