The quest for justice
Delaying Tactics The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was called in to investigate the police’s role if any in the collapse of the trial by South Wales Police. Simultaneously, the Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer ordered an investigation of…
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Injury to Insult Four months after the New Cardiff Three were sent to jail – the second miscarriage of justice in the same case – the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crimes Department announced that 13 police officers – three of…
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Duress – A Legal Quagmire Mark Grommek, Angela Psaila and Learnne Vilday (the New Cardiff Three) were told that they had a responsibility to tell the truth and should have reported what had been done to them. The prosecutor, Nicholas…
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The New Cardiff Three A Deeply Flawed Process We had hoped that the inquiry into what went wrong, which began in July 2003, would mean that our task had been completed. There was a lot of material to go through…
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Developments The murder of 20-year-old Lynette White in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 1988 was a particularly horrific murder. At the time it was the most brutal murder of its type in Welsh history. She sustained more than fifty…
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