The quest for justice
Richard Horwell QC has completed his report and it has been considered by the Home Secretary, who scraped back into Parliament by the skin of her teeth. Amber Rudd has welcomed it – no surprise there. Horwell thinks the failures…
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By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (July 16th 2013) Inadequate I am disappointed, but not surprised in the least by the latest failure of the processes imposed on the public by public authorities that have failed those they promised to…
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By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 20th 2012) Exoneration and Vindication Exoneration on appeal or acquittal at trial is where most miscarriage of justice cases are left – exoneration without acceptance of innocence. Unlike most I refused to stop…
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By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 16th 2012) Apology In July 2003 history was made. South Wales Police became the first British force in the DNA age to resolve a miscarriage of justice by finding and convicting the real…
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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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