Welcome to the Fitted-in Project…
Who are we?
The Fitted-In Project is a group of concerned people who decided to organise themselves to achieve their potential to facilitate policy changes in the criminal justice system. It dedicates immeasurable time and effort helping individuals who have become involved in cases of injustice caused by the failures of the criminal justice system, including the Crown Prosecution Service.
Author Satish Sekar wrote Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry and also The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt. Both books detailed what is now acknowledged to be one of Britain’s most notorious miscarriages of justice. Sekar is the Founder and CEO of the Fitted-In Project, which published the book Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry 14 years ago, but soon realised that its work was not complete.
Continued Need
The conviction of Jeffrey Gafoor, the real killer of Lynette White, justified our belief in the case of the Cardiff Five and its potential to change the criminal justice system, but it soon raised other issues that could not be resolved by books alone. We recognised that we needed to evolve and decided to expand the scope of The Fitted-In Project.
We began that process by formally establishing The FIP as a company limited by guarantee in February 2010 to enable us to conduct projects and activities that would highlight our concerns and improve the lives of the victims of miscarriages of justice and improve the criminal justice system in the process.
What We Do
We decided that in addition to projects, we should participate in and initiate activities that further the Aims and Objectives of The FIP. Our projects highlight issues such as vindication, which we pioneered, after-care for victims of miscarriages of justice, which includes the effect on their families, the effect of tariffs on them and the use of sport to assist them to rebuild their lives. We will publish reports on some of these projects and pamphlets on specific issues.
We have also developed an international perspective on our projects and activities, participating in international activities, such as the Working Breakfast in Bogotá that detailed The Fitted-In Project’s work to some of Colombia’s finest forensic scientists. Vindication is a phenomenon that affects several jurisdictions and there are important difference-making miscarriages of justice that have the potential to change criminal justice systems throughout the world. One such case occurred in Uganda to our member Mpagi Edward Edmary.
The FIP realised that we could also assist people by hiring out the expertise of our members for activities as long as they fit our Aims And Activities, but in order to maximise our potential we need charitable status which will be applied for shortly.
Social Justice
The Fitted-In Project highlights issues related to under-reported areas of miscarriage of justice work. These injustices devastate lives and not just of those wrongly accused. Some victims of these injustices are not even recognised as having suffered a miscarriage of justice. It is a grave injustice that people such as Colin Stagg are not recognised as victims of miscarriages of justice. Stagg was vindicated by the acceptance of responsibility by Robert Napper, but definitions of miscarriages of justice do not include those acquitted at trial.
We believe that people who can be proved innocent must be considered victims of miscarriages of justice. Four of the seven vindication cases in the DNA age in Britain involve people who were acquitted at trial. It is not enough to say that they have not been proved guilty; they are demonstrably innocent and that must be acknowledged in order to help them move on and society too and to help develop a criminal justice system that is fit for purpose and just. The FIP believes that people like Colin Stagg must be acknowledged as victims of miscarriages of justice. The definition must change to recognise what they have been through and begin the process of restorative justice for them.
The FIP recognises that they are entitled to restorative justice. We include this in our projects on after-care and on tariff changes too. We also conduct projects which use miscarriages of justice victims’ love of sport to help them to integrate back into society. Similarly we have further projects that use sporting talent, especially of young people, to try to encourage them to participate in professional sport or in community sporting events rather than drift into crime. These are among the social justice aspects of our work.
wonderful project you have! Glad to be a part of it!
Well done Satish! These tragic stories need to be told.
Thank you Matilda. This is a truly awful story.
Glad to help as much as I can
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you
relied on the video to make your point. You obviously know what youre talking about, why throw away your intelligence on just posting videos to your blog when you could be
giving us something informative to read?
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Hello Alphonso,
Most of our content is written and there will be more articles posted soon.
Best
satish
Admiring the time and effort you put into your site and in depth information you present.
It’s awesome to come across a blog every once in a while that isn’t the same unwanted rehashed information. Excellent read!
I’ve saved your site and I’m adding your
RSS feeds to my Google account.
Hello Sir, As a close relative of one of the cardiff men charged with the murder of lynette white there is something i would like to discuss with you. Please contact me via e.mail. Thank you.
Hello Juliet,
All I can say is stick to your principles and write with passion for your subject(s). It’s easy to see through writers going through the motions. Enjoy your writing and have a plan of what you want to achieve and who your readership will be. It must interest them, so it helps to know who they are and what they are interested in.
Best of luck
Satish
Fair points, but we don’t have sufficient images. I include them wherever I can if we have copyright to them. In time we will add images whenever and wherever we can.
Previous sites have been hacked. I still had access to some articles, but all had to be uploaded again. Major pain, but little option. You need to consult an IT expert regarding hackers. I’m definitely not an expert on this.
Thank you.
No problem.
Hello Shonda,
satishcsekar@fittedin.org
satishcsekar@fittedin.org