Bluff and Bluster
By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 13th 2012) Bluff Yusef Abdullahi had a strong alibi. It was treated not as a possible indicator of innocence, but as a guide to what the prosecution had to be undermine. It was,…
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By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 13th 2012) Bluff Yusef Abdullahi had a strong alibi. It was treated not as a possible indicator of innocence, but as a guide to what the prosecution had to be undermine. It was,…
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by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar January 19th 2009 The Review The review of the error made by forensic scientist Sian Hedges, then of the Forensic Science Service (FSS), in the Damilola Taylor Inquiry after the conviction of the Preddie…
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by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 31st 2009) Ludicrous When sentencing the real murderer of Lynette White to life imprisonment in July 2003, Mr Justice (Sir John) Royce told Jeffrey Gafoor: “You allowed innocent men to go to prison…
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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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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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