Tag Archive: police officer

Discussion De Fing Iz It

Author: Satish Sekar January 23, 2015 0 Comments

January 10th De Fing Iz It Discussion hosted by Dr Feelgood aka Kervin Julien Guests – Gregg L. Greer, Alex M. Salazar and Satish Sekar Kervin Julien hosts a lively discussion on police brutality, miscarriages of justice and the lack…
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Activities

accountability, activist, Alex M. Salazar, AUTHOR, Crown Prosecution Service, David Whitt, De Fing Iz It, Dr Feelgood, Eric Garner, Ferguson, FITTED IN: THE CARDIFF 3 AND THE LYNETTE WHITE INQUIRY, Gregg L. Greer, Harry Stanley, Kervin Julien, LYNETTE WHITE, Michael Brown, police officer, Satish Sekar, THE CARDIFF FIVE, The Fitted-In Project

Infamous Precedent

Author: Satish Sekar January 12, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (October 23rd 2014) Pioneering Executioner The pioneer of the long drop1 William Marwood hanged almost 180 people – some well known in their day, such as the notorious burglar and murderer Charles Peace. A…
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Capital Idea

assassinated, Balina, Bartholomew Binns, capital punishment, Charles Peace, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Daniel Curley, Dublin, Fenians, Frederick Cavendish, hangman, James Carey, Joseph Brady, Kilmainham Gaol, Lincoln Castle, massacre, Michael Fagan, Newgate Prison, Omagh Prison, Patrick OʼDonnell, Phoenix Park, police officer, Royal Irish Constabulary, Sub-Inspector, the Irish National Invincibles, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the long drop, Thomas Burke, Thomas Caffery, Thomas Hartley Montgomery, Timothy Kelly, Under-Secretary, William Glass, William Horry, William Marwood

Rotten to the Core

Author: Satish Sekar January 11, 2015 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (October 16th 2010) The Road to Oblivion Nearly a quarter of a century after John Billington despatched the once aspiring executioner Samuel Dougal, who was not deterred by capital punishment from committing murder, Thomas…
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Capital Idea

capital punishment, Charles Broomhead, deterrent, gallows, hanged, James Power, John Bilington, Mr Justice Swift, Norman Birkett KC, Olive Turner, police officer, Robert Wilson, Samuel Dougal, Thomas Pierrepoint, Winson Green Prison

Tales of Deterrence – Introduction

Author: Satish Sekar January 6, 2015 0 Comments

The Ultimate Deterrent? It is often said that capital punishment is the ultimate deterrent. The Fitted-In Project is not convinced. No matter how harsh the punishment it cannot deter criminals who do not think that they will ever be brought…
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Capital Idea

Britain, capital punishment, Edith Thompson, Ernest Moss, gallows, Gwynne Evans, hanged, John Ellis, John Reginald Halliday Christie, John West, Morocco, Peter Allen, police officer, Ruth Ellis, solicitor, the USA, TIMOTHY EVANS

Deterrence – Epic Fail

Author: Satish Sekar December 13, 2014 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (December 13th 2014) Capital Punishment The death penalty is said by its supporters to be the ultimate deterrent. But is it? If anyone should think once, twice and be put off from committing a…
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Articles, Capital Idea

Brooklyn, deterrent, electric chair, executed, Governor Benjamin Odell Jnr, hanged, insanity defence, James Robertson, Mary Ennis, police officer, Sing Sing Prison, William Ennis

“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 an experienced and able author and investigative journalist with a long track record in campaigning against miscarriages of justice. He continues acting as a pressure group to alleviate the problems which those wrongfully convicted suffer in the long term, even after they have been vindicated. He is also actively involved in anti-racism initiatives, particularly in football, and seeks to improve racial equality by increasing the sporting opportunities available for disadvantaged gro…

Dave Barclay

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