Author Archive: Satish Sekar

Failure

Author: Satish Sekar October 15, 2014 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 24th 2012) Fired Up Two days after Maxwell Confaitʼs body was discovered in April 1972 three fires got the policeʼs attention. They arrested 18-year-old Colin Lattimore. He quickly confessed to setting the fires…
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AHMET SALIH, CAMERON, COLIN LATTIMORE, CONFAIT, DOGGETT ROAD, FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS, IQ, LATTIMORE, LEIGHTON, MAXWELL CONFAIT, PROFESSOR ALAN USHER, PROFESSOR CAMERON, PROFESSOR JAMES CAMERON, PROFESSOR KEITH MANT, RONALD LEIGHTON, ROYAL COMMISSION, SALIH, SIMPSON, TEARE, THE CATFORD THREE, THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Errors of Judgement

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by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 20th 2012) Timings In the early hours of April 22nd 1972 a police surgeon pronounced mixed-race transvestite Maxwell Confait dead. A fire had just been extinguished at the Doggett Road residence in Catford,…
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AUSTRALIA, BRABIN, CAMERON, CATFORD, CONFAIT, DOGGETT ROAD, EVANS, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST, FRANCIS CAMPS, HOME SECRETARY, JAMES CAMERON, JOHN CHRISTIE, KEITH SIMPSON, LINDY AND MICHAEL CHAMBERLAIN, LORD JUSTICE (SIR STANLEY) BURNTON, MAXWELL CONFAIT, PROFESSOR CAMERON, PROFESSOR DONALD TEARE, PROFESSOR KEITH SIMPSON, ROY JENKINS, SIMPSON, Sir Frank Soskice, Soskice, SOUTH-EAST LONDON, THE BRABIN REPORT, THE CRIMINAL CASES REVIEW COMMISSION, THE DINGO BABY CASE, THE ROYAL PARDON, TIMOTHY EVANS

The Foundation

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by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (December 9th 2011) Damage Limitation The Police Corruption Trial of the Century ended in farce on December 1st 2011 – a nine year investigative process had resulted in convictions of three vulnerable witnesses and…
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Born of Tragedy

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by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 15th 2012) Origins The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is over a quarter of a century old. It was established in 1986 by the Prosecution of Offences Act (1985), but why? Previously, the police…
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AHMET SALIH, ASSISTANT CHIEF CONSTABLE OF WEST MERCIA POLICE, ATTORNEY GENERAL, CAMERON, COLIN LATTIMORE, CONFAIT, DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTOR, DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTOR EDDIE ELLISON, DETECTIVE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT, DETECTIVE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT E J GEORGE, DOGGETT ROAD, DOUGLAS FRANKLIN, DPP, E J GEORGE, EDDIE ELLISON, EGREGIOUS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE, FISHER, KEITH MANT, LATTIMORE, LEIGHTON, LORD JUSTICE (SIR LESLIE) SCARMAN, MAXWELL CONFAIT, MR JUSTICE (SIR HENRY) FISHER, PACE, PARLIAMENT, PAUL POOLEY, PETER FRYER, PROFESSOR ALAN USHER, PROFESSOR DONALD TEARE, PROFESSOR JAMES CAMERON, PROFESSOR KEITH SIMPSON, RONALD LEIGHTON, ROY JENKINS, SALIH, SCARMAN, SIMPSON, SIR MICHAEL HAVERS, TEARE, THE CATFORD THREE, THE COURT OF APPEAL, THE CPS, THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE, THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS, THE JUDGEʼS RULES, THE POLICE AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT, THE PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES ACT, THE REAL MURDERER, THE ROYAL COMMISSION, THE ROYAL COMMISSION OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, TIME OF DEATH

Ambushed

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by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 23rd 2012) Inconvenient Evidence The case of the Catford Three (Colin Lattimore, Ronald Leighton and Ahmet Salih) is now acknowledged as of Britain’s pivotal miscarriages of justice – one that changed the criminal…
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AHMET SALIH, CAMERON, COLIN LATTIMORE, JUDITH WARD, LATTIMORE, LEIGHTON, LORD JUSTICE JAMES, MAXWELL CONFAIT, MR JUSTICE CHAPMAN, PROFESSOR JAMES CAMERON, RONALD LEIGHTON, SALIH, THE CATFORD THREE, THE COURT OF APPEAL, THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE, THE JUDGEʼS RULES, THE POLICE AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT, THE PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES ACT, THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON CRIMINAL PROCEDURES

“Satish is a dedicated investigative journalist who worked hard to investigate the background to the jailing of the Cardiff Three for the 1988 murder of Lynette White. The success of their appeal against their convictions is largely down to his hard work. He wrote the story of this case and his subsequent campaign to have the case reinvestigated in his book ‘Fitted In: The Cardiff Three and the Lynette White Inquiry’. I wanted to write about the forensic aspects of the case in my book Cold…

Liz Porter Sunday AgeAustralia

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“Satish is an author of ‘Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry‘ and the recently published “The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt“. He is also a journalist, academic, researcher and expert, especially for those who have suffered miscarriages of justice. Although at times, Satish is highly critical of the criminal justice system, he only challenges from a position of desiring improvement for the benefit of all, whether they be the investigator or the investigated. Members…

Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera

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“Satish is a dedicated investigator with a passion for justice, both to correct miscarriages to absolve the innocent, and to identify and bring the true perpetrator(s) to account. His dogged determination and indefatigable efforts to explore overlooked or disregarded facts and possibilities, and to publish his findings publicly, have made a significant contribution to the Criminal Justice System in Britain and abroad.”

Robert (Bob) Parsons (Forensic Chemist/Alcohol Toxicologist, Indian River C…

Bob Parsons

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