Looks like that edifice is finally going to come tumbling down.
A test case is to be heard in the chourt of appeal within weeks, which will challenge the investigation for the first time and could expose a “huge miscarriage of justice”, lawyers claim.
Chris Saltrese, the solicitor representing the convicted man, Anthony O’Shea, said: “If his appeal is successful the convictions of others for the same offence will fall too.
“We are talking in the hundreds and we say this is a huge miscarriage of justice.”
10 responses so far ↓
1 Andrew // Jul 3, 2009 at 10:11 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7340997.stm
2 Obnoxio The Clown // Jul 3, 2009 at 10:37 am
Wow, another horrific miscarriage of justice! It’s almost like there are sections of the police and CPS and judiciary who are utterly and terminally incompetent.
3 ChrisM // Jul 3, 2009 at 11:15 am
I think you are being too generous Obo. I think there are sections of those institutions that are outright evil.
4 Lord T // Jul 3, 2009 at 11:35 am
About time and can we have prosecutions of those that pushed these cases even though they knew the facts.
5 JuliaM // Jul 3, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Not before time…
6 Serf // Jul 3, 2009 at 12:49 pm
So someone steals your credit card details, uses them to buy child porn, and you lose your entire life.
Justice.
7 Kay Tie // Jul 3, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Hey Andrew (or should I say Jim Gamble?), you ought to know that the truth behind that is a teensy weensy bit more complicated.
Have a look at this instead:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/17/ore_bates_arrest/
Something a bit more balanced. And we know what happened after: the chief constable of the arresting force nearly ended up in prison.
8 john b // Jul 3, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Also note that neither Tim nor the Telegraph piece even referred to Bates, so bringing him in is a particularly poisonous non-sequitur (even if you believe he really was ‘disgraced’ rather than ‘disgracefully fitted up’)
9 JuliaM // Jul 3, 2009 at 3:30 pm
“..bringing him in is a particularly poisonous non-sequitur..”
And there’s something I can agree with johnb on. See, he doesn’t always talk absolute crap.
Unlike when he successfully tries to predict how many times false rape cases actually occur…
10 Tiesto // Dec 6, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Well the appeal failed – http://www.mearnsleader.co.uk/news/police_welcome_rejection_of_child_porn_conviction_appeal_1_404401
So, either there is large conspiracy involving the Judiciary and Police…or the suspects were guilty all along. Interesting comments by the Judge regarding Jim Bates
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/o-shea-judgment-06122010.pdf
He told a deliberate lie to the Court, according to the Judge.
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