Tag Archive: Ricky Preddie

Unaddressed Needs – Part Four – Insult and Injury

Fitted In – An Integrated Approach[1] Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (June 1st 2011) Discretion and Valour Of the seven vindication cases in Britain four of them are no longer eligible for compensation or after-care and it is too late to…
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Unaddressed Needs – Part Three – Motes and Specks

Fitted In – An Integrated Approach[1] by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (June 1st 2011) Lectures If we intend to keep handing out lectures on human rights to other governments, then we have to address our own failings. There are seven…
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The Rights of The Forgotten Victims – Victim Impact Statements

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 31st 2009) Impact The law allows the families of victims the right to give victim statements about how the murder of their loved one has affected them to judges before the tariff –…
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The Partial Truth – Damage Limitation

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar January 19th 2009 The Review The review of the error made by forensic scientist Sian Hedges, then of the Forensic Science Service (FSS), in the Damilola Taylor Inquiry after the conviction of the Preddie…
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The Partial Truth – Errors of Judgement

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar January 11th 2006 Failure Ricky Preddie and his brother Danny were nineteen and eighteen years old respectively when they were convicted in August 2006 of the manslaughter of ten year old Damilola Taylor, which…
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