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Absolutely Fu....g Shocking.
Maybe the worst miscarriage of justice ever?
A Killing in Tiger Bay - Season 1 Episode 1 - The Murder BBC ONE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRiDdZbL7Gw
A Killing in Tiger Bay - Season 1 Episode 1 - The Murder BBC ONE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRiDdZbL7Gw
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The five did about two years on remand.
Three of the five were found guilty, and did a further two years.
Three of the witnesses subsequently did eighteen months for perjury.
Everyone, that is, except for those that should have gone to jail.
These were the eight coppers that were subsequently charged.
They invented a fictional scenario which was "almost entirely a fabrication and was largely the product of the imagination,".
The former officers were accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by agreeing to "mould, manipulate, influence and fabricate evidence".
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said it believed this would be the biggest trial of police officers in British legal history.
Jurors had been told it was likely to last six months or longer.
Unfortunately the trial collapsed.
This was caused by some crucial paperwork being shredded.
Gosh, how did that happen?
The paperwork was conveniently found some weeks later.
Although too late for the trial.
That was very lucky for the corrupt coppers.
The investigation started with a reliable witness, and a photofit of a white man, seen very close to the crime scene with blood on his hand, at the time the crime was committed.
Somehow this resulted in five black men being charged.
Blood that didnt belong to Lynette was recovered at the scene.
This blood didnt match any of the five,
A palm print in blood was found on a wall.
This palm print didnt belong to any of the five.
The thirteen witnesses that gave one of the five an alibi were ignored.
They were all working a nightshift, unloading a ship in Barry, eight miles away.
Years later a DNA test led to the conviction of the real culprit.
He was a white man that closely resembled the original photofit.
The screenshot on the video above features the photofit, and the perpetrator.
He had been a customer of Lynette White, and murdered her after a dispute over £30.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14042058
The report by Richard Horwell QC found there was no deliberate attempt to cover up any crime.
Instead the investigation, ordered by the Home Office, blamed the collapse of the case against the officers on "multiple human failings" and "not wickedness".
It said the events that followed the murder of Ms White "represent one of the worst miscarriages of justice in the history of our criminal justice system".
In 2015, the eight ex-officers cleared of perverting the course of justice launched a High Court civil action against South Wales Police.
Graham Mouncher, Thomas Page, Richard Powell, John Seaford, Michael Daniels, Peter Greenwood, Paul Jennings and Paul Stephen sued for malicious prosecution, false imprisonment and misfeasance.
But the judge in the civil action dismissed their case at the end of 2015.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40644303
I suppose I could have said the worst in the UK, but then Timothy Evans, and Derek Bentley were definitely worse, as they were executed.
There have also been a number of cases where those wrongly convicted have served more time in jail.
So I will confine myself to saying that is yet another shocking miscarriage of justice.
I cant believe that the police could get away with acting so maliciously.
A fatal confession Keith Morrison Investigates, series 1 ep 1.
Daniel Villegas.
Again on Discovery plus, and another Keith Morrison investigates.
It was a similar case to that of Daniel Villegas, and another forced confession.
The police were much sneakier in this case.
They offered Chris Tapp, a 20 year old, immunity from prosecution.
The immunity was dependant upon him confessing to his involvement, and telling the whole truth.
They threatened him with withdrawal of this deal unless he admitted to some involvement, and also forced him to implicate others.
The other names he put forward were all cleared.
They eventually withdrew the deal on the basis that he hadnt told the whole truth, and charged him.
This was despite the fact that the DNA from the semen sample found on the body didnt match him.
He finally cracked after around 60 hours of coercive interrogation, 7 polygraphs, and threats of being given the death penalty.
He served over 20 years.
The prosecution did seek the death penalty, but he was sentenced to life in prison.
The biggest advocate of his innocence was Carol Dodge, Angies mother.
They found the culprit after sending the DNA sample off to Ancestry.com.
The guy admitted to the crime, and that he acted alone.
Its much easier to get into prison than it is to get out, even if you are completely innocent.
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2020/10/chris-tapp-sues-idaho-falls-and-ifpd-for-wrongful-conviction/