The ongoing problems of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in the UK have been highlighted in a number of previous posts on this blog, and indeed it will have been obvious to all and sundry in Britain that the whole system broke down a long long time ago, don’t you think? Now there are multiple […]
THE REAL VICTIM Well, well, well, in one of the most bizarre twists one could imagine in any criminal trial, Amanda Knox has now been acquitted of involvement in the murder in Italy eight years ago of her flatmate Meredith Kercher (a twenty-one year old Londoner) – this judgment squashing the conviction, came in […]
Our politicians have let us down when it comes to ‘justice’ haven’t they? It is always a major plank though in their election speeches isn’t it – ‘Law & Order’? But they never deliver in practice do they? Oh yes, officially crime is falling and the statistics (except for sexual offences & shoplifting of course) […]
THE REAL VICTIM Nobody knows the name of Meredith Kercher do they? She was a twenty-one year old Londoner shockingly murdered in Italy seven years ago. Mention though the name of another similar aged young woman at the time Amanda Knox, an American, and people will recall it well. She is one of those […]
The British public often react with troubled amazement when high profile cases result in a NOT Guilty verdict. Of course none of those individuals have actually been in the Courtroom to hear the real evidence themselves, let alone in the Jury Room to listen to their deliberations. Oh no, Joe Public gets his/her information on […]
There have now been a number of celebrity trials involving rape, sexual abuse and sex assaults, involving accusations about events many years ago. Following acquittals, there has been a raft of criticism that charges had been preceded with, and such matters put before the Courts. This is a disingenuous denigration of the process of our […]
THE REAL VICTIM The name Amanda Knox is widely known in America, is familiar in England, and rubbished in Italy. She, along with two men, was convicted of a 2007 murder in Italy. The name Meredith Kercher however is hardly recognised anywhere. This was the young 21 year old exchange student from London who was […]
Yesterday the Sunday Mirror April 21 2013 carried a major front page story with headline ‘My Poor Rolf’ in the company of a ‘Full Story’ on Page 9, this accompanied by a further major headline ‘He’s really suffering.. he can’t even sleep’. Whether intentional or not, these articles and their content presents a ‘sympathetic’ news […]
Women Rapists Rape is the penetration of a woman without her consent when the defendant had no reasonable believe that he had consent. It is a worrying state of affairs when the female chairwoman of the Bar Council, Maura McGowan, comes out in favour of an unworkable plan in favour of anonymity for men accused […]
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