Tag Archive: LEIGHTON

Failure

Author: Satish Sekar November 9, 2014 2 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 24th 2012) Fired Up Two days after Maxwell Confaitʼs body was discovered in April 1972 three fires got the policeʼs attention. They arrested 18-year-old Colin Lattimore. He quickly confessed to setting the fires…
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Unfit for Purpose

AHMET SALIH, CAMERON, COLIN LATTIMORE, CONFAIT, DOGGETT ROAD, FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS, IQ, LATTIMORE, LEIGHTON, MAXWELL CONFAIT, PROFESSOR ALAN USHER, PROFESSOR CAMERON, PROFESSOR JAMES CAMERON, PROFESSOR KEITH MANT, RONALD LEIGHTON, ROYAL COMMISSION, SALIH, SIMPSON, TEARE, THE CATFORD THREE, THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Errors of Judgement

Author: Satish Sekar November 9, 2014 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 20th 2012) Timings In the early hours of April 22nd 1972 a police surgeon pronounced mixed-race transvestite Maxwell Confait dead. A fire had just been extinguished at the Doggett Road residence in Catford,…
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Unfit for Purpose

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Ambushed

Author: Satish Sekar November 8, 2014 0 Comments

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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Unfit for Purpose

AHMET SALIH, CAMERON, COLIN LATTIMORE, CONFAIT, JUDITH WARD, LATTIMORE, LEIGHTON, LORD JUSTICE JAMES, MAXWELL CONFAIT, MR JUSTICE CHAPMAN, PATHOLOGIST, PROFESSOR JAMES CAMERON, RONALD LEIGHTON, SALIH, THE CATFORD THREE, THE COURT OF APPEAL, THE CPS, THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE, THE JUDGEʼS RULES, THE POLICE AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT, THE PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES ACT

Born of Tragedy

Author: Satish Sekar November 8, 2014 0 Comments

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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Unfit for Purpose

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Failure

Author: Satish Sekar October 15, 2014 0 Comments

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“Satish is a dedicated investigative journalist who worked hard to investigate the background to the jailing of the Cardiff Three for the 1988 murder of Lynette White. The success of their appeal against their convictions is largely down to his hard work. He wrote the story of this case and his subsequent campaign to have the case reinvestigated in his book ‘Fitted In: The Cardiff Three and the Lynette White Inquiry’. I wanted to write about the forensic aspects of the case in my book Cold…

Liz Porter Sunday AgeAustralia

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“Satish is a dedicated investigator with a passion for justice, both to correct miscarriages to absolve the innocent, and to identify and bring the true perpetrator(s) to account. His dogged determination and indefatigable efforts to explore overlooked or disregarded facts and possibilities, and to publish his findings publicly, have made a significant contribution to the Criminal Justice System in Britain and abroad.”

Robert (Bob) Parsons (Forensic Chemist/Alcohol Toxicologist, Indian River C…

Bob Parsons

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