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How twisted killer kept page from diary of 15-year-old girl he raped and murdered in 1975
as he is FINALLY brought to justice in England's oldest double jeopardy case after spending nearly 50 years a 'free man'
Double jeopardy child killer and rapist Dennis McGrory (left, as he looked at the time) evaded justice for 50 years after keeping a single page from his victim's diary (right) - which eventually helped prove his guilt. The degenerate pensioner (top inset, now), 75, brutally murdered and violated Jacqui Montgomery (lower inset), 15, in June 1975 in her Isleworth home. McGrory had been trying to find his ex-partner Josie and snatched a page out of Jacqui's blue-lined diary which had the location written on it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11557597/How-twisted-killer-kept-page-diary-15-year-old-girl-raped-murdered-1975.html
Double jeopardy child killer and rapist Dennis McGrory (left, as he looked at the time) evaded justice for 50 years after keeping a single page from his victim's diary (right) - which eventually helped prove his guilt. The degenerate pensioner (top inset, now), 75, brutally murdered and violated Jacqui Montgomery (lower inset), 15, in June 1975 in her Isleworth home. McGrory had been trying to find his ex-partner Josie and snatched a page out of Jacqui's blue-lined diary which had the location written on it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11557597/How-twisted-killer-kept-page-diary-15-year-old-girl-raped-murdered-1975.html
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Double jeopardy is the 800-year-old principle that you can't go on trial for the same crime more than once.
Its purpose was to protect the innocent against judicial tyranny that could see them convicted arbitrarily, even after being found not guilty by a jury.
In 2005, the Labour government repealed the law after a number of campaigns, which persuaded senior judges and legal figures that a more nuanced approach was needed to deal with complex cases.
One of these was a campaign by the family of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993.
Five suspects were charged but not convicted after an initial investigation.
In 1999, a public inquiry led by Sir William Macpherson concluded that Metropolitan Police was institutionally racist.
As a result he recommended double jeopardy be repealed in murder cases where extraordinary evidence later emerges.
The law came into effect in 2005, and since then retrials have been allowed in cases where 'new, compelling, reliable and substantial evidence' has comes to light.