Tag Archive: PACE

System Failures

Author: Satish Sekar January 17, 2015 0 Comments

False Impressions The prosecution team in the Lynette White murder trial included two Queens Counsels, led by David Elfer. The other became Mr Justice Roderick Evans. Elfer failed to understand Stephen Miller’s vulnerability and used a confession that was false,…
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Truth and Justice, Unfit for Purpose

Barry Dock, Brynley Samuel, can of worms, confessions, David Elfer QC, Lord Taylor, LYNETTE WHITE, Mr Jusatice (Sir Oliver) Popplewell, Mr Justice (Sir John) Laws, Mr Justice (Sir John) Leonard, Mr Justice McNeill, Mr Justice Roderick Evans, PACE, PAUL DARVELL, SANDRA PHILLIPS, severance, Sir David McNeill, South Wales, STEPHEN MILLER, THE CARDIFF FIVE, the Cardiff Three, THE COURT OF APPEAL, THE CPS, the Darvell brothers, WAYNE DARVELL, YUSEF ABDULLAHI

CPS – Culpable. Pathetic. Shameful.

Author: Satish Sekar January 17, 2015 0 Comments

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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Truth and Justice, Unfit for Purpose

CPS, Darren Hall, Dic Penderyn, Ellis Sherwood, Hywel Hughes, Michael O'Brien, miscarriage of justice, PACE, Penderyn methods, Presumed Guilty: The Death of the Justice, THE CARDIFF FIVE, the Code for Crown Prosecutors, THE CPS, THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE, THE LYNETTE WHITE INQUIRY, the Newsagent's Three

Representation?

Author: Satish Sekar January 17, 2015 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 12th 2012) Hindrance Stephen Miller’s solicitor when arrested for the murder of Lynette White, Graham Dobson used a local solicitor Geraint Richards to represent Miller in the interviews. His presence was a hindrance…
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Truth and Justice, Unfit for Purpose

alibi, Anthony Evans QC, blood-staining, Debbie Actie, Geraint Richards, Graham Dobson, IQ, Lord Taylor, Lyette White, MICHAEL MANSFIELD QC, Mr Justice Leonard, Mr Justice McNeill, PACE, Robyn Reed, Roger Frisby QC, STEPHEN MILLER, the Lord Chief Justice, TONY PARIS, Ysef Abdullahi

Incapable of Belief

Author: Satish Sekar November 20, 2014 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 24th 2009) Absurd The Cardiff Five is far from the only miscarriage of justice case from the 1980s and 90s that involves lying witnesses and proven malpractice by police, but it is the…
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Truth and Justice

Andrew Neal, appeal judges, BBC Wales, Christopher Chick, civil action, Darren Hall, Detective Constable Brian Paine, Detective Constable Mark Cheminais, Detective INspector Trevor Gladding, Ellis Sherwood, Gary Mills, Helen Morris, IPCC, JEFFREY GAFOOR, Law Lords, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, Lord Justice Otton, LYNETTE WHITE, Michael OʼBrien, miscarriage of justice, PACE, Paul White, PERJURY, Phillip Saunders, SOUTH WALES POLICE, Stuart Lewis, THE CARDIFF FIVE, THE INDEPENDENT POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMISSION, the Newsagentʼs Three, THE POLICE AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT, Tony Poole

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

AHMET SALIH, CAMERON, CATFORD, COLIN LATTIMORE, CONFAIT, Crown Prosecution Service, DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTOR, DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTOR EDDIE ELLISON, DETECTIVE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT, DETECTIVE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT E J GEORGE, DOGGETT ROAD, DOUGLAS FRANKLIN, E J GEORGE, EDDIE ELLISON, EGREGIOUS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE, FISHER, KEITH MANT, LATTIMORE, LEIGHTON, LORD JUSTICE (SIR LESLIE) SCARMAN, MAXWELL CONFAIT, MR JUSTICE (SIR HENRY) FISHER, PACE, PARLIAMENT, pathologists, PAUL POOLEY, PETER FRYER, police brutality, PROFESSOR ALAN USHER, PROFESSOR DONALD TEARE, PROFESSOR JAMES CAMERON, PROFESSOR KEITH SIMPSON, RONALD LEIGHTON, ROY JENKINS, SALIH, SCARMAN, SIMPSON, SIR MICHAEL HAVERS, TEARE, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE CATFORD THREE, the Chief Constable of West Mercia Police, THE COURT OF APPEAL, THE CPS, THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS, the Judge's Rules, THE POLICE AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT, THE PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES ACT, THE REAL MURDERER, THE ROYAL COMMISSION, the Royal Commission of Criminal Procedures, THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, the time of death, vulnerable suspects

“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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