Tag Archive: Tony Poole

Part One – Tarnished

A Shoddy Prosecution  by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (November 14th 2008) Incandescent In April 1996 David Jessel, the then presenter of Channel Fourʼs sadly defunct Trial And Error, was justifiably incandescent with rage. He addressed the media brandishing a copy of Lord Justice…
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Non-vindication Cases

Exoneration – Insufficient Stefan Kiszko was vindicated over a decade after his death by the conviction of the real killer of Lesley Molseed, Ronald Castree, but there are others who will never be vindicated. For them exoneration is as good…
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Standards

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (January 16th 2013) Disbelief The failure to investigate, let alone prosecute in miscarriage of justice cases is striking. Mervyn ‘Tex’ Ritter expressed disbelief that appeal judges believed him after an unsuccessful appeal by the…
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Incapable of Belief

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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