miscarriage of justice
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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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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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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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It was meant to be the case in which South Wales Police drew a line under some of the difficult times from the past. Instead, the force and the Crown Prosecution Service in Wales are waking up to difficult headlines about the collapse of the largest alleged police corruption trial ever seen in the UK.
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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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The Home Office and Attorney General’s Office have blocked calls for a public inquiry into the death of a 10-year-old boy who died after a failure to carry out a medical test which would have identified a rare treatable condition. Former First Minister Rhodri Morgan became a late convert to the idea of a public
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Prison snitch evidence is a central feature of many alleged and proven miscarriages of justice.This sort of evidence was important to the conviction of Gordon Park, the so-called ‘Lady in the Lake’ killer, who was found dead in his prison cell on Monday.Today, in the Daily Mail, Bob Woffinden explains why Mr Park’s family will
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Here’s an update on Michael O’Brien’s appearance at the Hay Festival by Duncan Campbell of the Guardian and here’s a recent interview by David James of the South Wales Echo with one of Mr O’Brien’s co-accused Ellis Sherwood.
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The Michael O’Brien event at the Hay Festival has been confirmed for 10am on Saturday, May 23.O’Brien will be talking with The Guardian’s Duncan Campbell about the book The Death of Justice and his 11 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.I understand the event may already be sold out but there
Greg Lewis 