Tag Archive: the Home Secretary

Proven Innocent

Author: Satish Sekar August 16, 2016 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (May 9th 2011) Presumed Guilty “I don’t care about the money,” is a frequent refrain of the innocent. “I want my name back and an apology.” Usually they get neither, because miscarriage of justice…
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After-care, Articles, Truth and Justice, Vindication

after-care, Andrew Evans, Annette Hewins, Barry George, Lord Laird, Lord McNally, MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE, real perpetrator, S133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, the Discetionary Scheme, the Home Secretary, the Supreme Court

A Bulging Underlay

Author: Satish Sekar April 2, 2015 0 Comments

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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Truth and Justice, Vindication

ALUN MICHAEL, Ann Widdecombe, DCS Phil Jones, DNA, HMCPSI, Michael Howard, Phase III, Sir David MacLean, SOUTH WALES POLICE, THE CARDIFF FIVE, THE CPS, THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE, the Home Secretary, THE LYNETTE WHITE INQUIRY, the Professional Standards Department, Theresa May

The Partial Truth – Damage Limitation

Author: Satish Sekar November 21, 2014 0 Comments

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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Vindication

Alan Rawley QC, Brian Caddy, Damilola Taylor, Danny Preddie, Feltham Young Offenders Institution, FSS, Hassan Jihad, John Sentamu, Ricky Preddie, Sian Hedges, the Archbishop of York, THE CPS, the Damilola Taylor Inquiry, the Forensic Science Regulator, the Forensic Science Service, the Home Secretary, the Metropolitan Police, the Preddie brothers

A Travesty of Justice

Author: Satish Sekar November 21, 2014 0 Comments

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 31st 2009) Ludicrous When sentencing the real murderer of Lynette White to life imprisonment in July 2003, Mr Justice (Sir John) Royce told Jeffrey Gafoor: “You allowed innocent men to go to prison…
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Articles, Just Tariffs

ATTORNEY GENERAL, Geraldine Palk, JEFFREY GAFOOR, John Pope, Karen Skipper, LYNETTE WHITE, Mark Hampson, Mr Justice (Sir John) Royce, Mr Justice (Sir Nigel) Davis, Mrs Justice (Dame Heather) Hallett, murder, murderer, tariff, THE CARDIFF FIVE, the Cardiff Three, THE CPS, the Home Secretary

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

AHMET SALIH, AUSTRALIA, Beryl Evans, botched, BRABIN, CAMERON, Catford Three, cause célèbre, COLIN LATTIMORE, CONFAIT, depraved serial killer, Dingo Baby Case, DOGGETT ROAD, Donald Teare, FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS, FRANCIS CAMPS, Full Pardon, Geraldine Evans, JAMES CAMERON, JOHN CHRISTIE, KEITH SIMPSON, LATTIMORE, LEIGHTON, Lindy Chamberlain, LORD JUSTICE (SIR STANLEY) BURNTON, MAXWELL CONFAIT, Michael Chamberlain, miscarriage of justice, PATHOLOGIST, PROFESSOR KEITH SIMPSON, RONALD LEIGHTON, ROY JENKINS, Royal Pardon, SALIH, shameful miscarriage of justice, SIMPSON, Sir Frank Soskice, Soskice, TEARE, THE BRABIN REPORT, THE CRIMINAL CASES REVIEW COMMISSION, the Home Secretary, TIMOTHY EVANS

“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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“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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“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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