Fair Cop? - The police

28 July 1994 The Guardian This week two police officers were cleared of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. They were the latest in a line of police officers to be prosecuted and acquitted as a result of some of the most high-profile miscarriage of justice cases of the last two decades - the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Darvell brothers and, in this week's case, the conviction, subsequently quashed, of Winston...

Continue Reading... Labels: Crown Prosecution Service, Dick Holland, DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko

A case of paying for evidence

3 June 1994 The Independent _F Robert Verkaik reports on the increasing use of expert witnesses who provide specialist courtroom testimony. The decision last month to prosecute the forensic expert involved in the Stefan Kiszko case has highlighted the importance of the use of expert witnesses by the legal profession. Mr Kiszko, a 41-year-old Inland Revenue clerk, was convicted in 1976 of the murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed,...

Continue Reading... Labels: DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, paedophiles, Ronald Castree, Ronald Outteridge, Stefan Kiszko