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Entitlement

Author: Satish Sekar March 17, 2018 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 15th 2018) Scandal 25 years ago today a precursor of the ‘Me Too’ movement claimed a very important victory in an unlikely place. Morocco, at the time, was seen as a place where…
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Abdessalam Bekkali, Ahmed Ouachi, Casablanca, Death Penalty, Dr Driss Lahlou, Hay Mohammadi-Ain Sebâa, Kenitra Prison, King Mohammed VI, Mohamed Mustapha Tabet, Morocco, Moutachawiq Case, Mustapha ben Maghnia

A Fair Cop – The Ultimate Price

Author: Satish Sekar April 15, 2017 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (April 14th 2017) Lessons Learned? The USA restored the death penalty after a four year break in 1976. In fact, there had been no executions since 1967 – the Supreme Court ruled the statutes…
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Donna Mills, Frank Coppola, Furman v Georgia, Gary Gilmore, Gregg v Georgia, James Power, Joseph Miltier, Karen Coppola, Muriel Hatchell, Northern Ireland, Olive Turner, Peyton Hatchell, the Supreme Court, Thomas Montgomery, Utah, Virginia, William Glass

Killer Cops – The Failure of Deterrence

Author: Satish Sekar April 14, 2017 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (April 14th 2017) Deterrence? Article 50 has been triggered, but it has emerged that many Brexit supporters want more than tighter immigration controls – they want the return of capital punishment too, but what…
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China, Death Penalty, deterrence, execution, Handan, James Robertson, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, Mohamed Mustafa Tabet, Morocco, Salmaan Taseer, Wang Xiwen

The Poster Boy of Infamy

Author: Satish Sekar April 2, 2016 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (April 1st 2016) A Beast in Uniform The death penalty is the ultimate deterrent, or so we keep hearing. Really? Then how do its supporters explain the actions and fate of former Casablanca police…
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Abdesalam Bekkali, Ahmed Ouachi, Casablanca, Dr Driss Lahlou, Mohamed Mustafa Tabet, Morocco, Mustafa Benmaghnia, police, rape

Disgracing Justice – the Eikenhof Three

Author: Satish Sekar July 27, 2015 2 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 7th 2013) Vindication Almost 20 years ago Zandra Mitchley and teenagers Shaun Nel and Claire Silberbauer were murdered in a notorious armed attack on a car approaching Eikenhof, which is near Johannesburg. All…
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Apartheid, Claire Silberbauer, Craig Lamprecht, Letlapa Mphahlele, Norman Mitchley, Phila Dolo, Shaun Nel, Siphiwe Bholo, Sipho Gavin, South Africa, the African National Congress, the ANC, the APLA, the Azanian People's Liberation Army, The Eikenhof Three, the PAC, the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Titi Boy Ndweni, Umkhonto we Sizwe, vindication, Zandra Mitchley

“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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