Tag Archive: THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE

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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A Leap of Faith – The Quest

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 28th 2009) Apology? Michael O’Brien’s quest for an apology for over eleven years of wrongful imprisonment has so far been unsuccessful, but he secured the highest ever compensation to a victim of a…
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A Terrible Missed Opportunity

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (December 27th 2011) Institutional Racism Over 20 months before black aspiring architect Stephen Lawrence was murdered, the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had the opportunity to save his life, but institutional racism…
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Ambushed

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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Born of Tragedy

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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