Tag Archive: CPS

CPS – Culpable. Pathetic. Shameful.

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 19th 2012) Coded For the last quarter of a century the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was supposed to have provided independent scrutiny on decisions over whether or not to prosecute. It had powers…
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Heartless

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 13th 2013) All He Ever Wanted “All I ever wanted is justice”, says Michael O’Brien, one of the men wrongly convicted of the murder of Cardiff newspaper vendor Phillip Saunders, over 25 years…
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Lessons Ignored

Tragedy Three days before she was due to stand trial accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice Eleanor de Freitas committed suicide. Last year she had accused a man1 of rape. The investigating officers believed her, but lacked…
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Unaccountable

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (July 21st 2013) Unjustifiable The Crown Prosecution Service was established over a quarter of a century ago. Among its high profile and spectacular failures is the Lynette White Inquiry. Its Code for Crown Prosecutors…
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Same Old Story

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (April 10th 2008) Extraordinary The extraordinary case of Gary Mills and Tony Poole is in the news again. After fourteen years of wrongful imprisonment, they were freed in June 2003 – the last seven…
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