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Harbison's evidence was "unsafe"

  • 06-01-2008 8:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭


    http://www.galwayfirst.ie/content/view/2130/962/

    Quite Shocking to think that Harbison was so callous.I wish to show in this in contrast to the work of Irish state patologist Professor John Crane where he helped solve on of the worst miscarriage of justice in Britain that involved a calculated and callous or indeed ambiguous report by the British pathologist Johnson.


    http://www.innocent.org.uk/

    A 70-year-old man who has served 23 years in jail for murder is expected to have his conviction quashed after the worst miscarriage of justice in British history.

    Patrick Nicholls will be released if the Court of Appeal accepts new evidence in his case. Mr Nicholls received a life sentence in 1975 for the murder of Gladys Heath, a 74-year-old family friend found dead at her home in Worthing, West Sussex. He has always insisted he found the body at the foot of the stairs.

    He has been on bail since March following the emergence of fresh evidence. At the time two pathologists concluded that she had died of a heart attack after being suffocated and severely beaten about the face.

    But a review of the case by Professor John Crane, an Irish state pathologist, found the facial injuries were trivial and probably caused by the fall, itself prompted by the heart attack. In a report to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, Professor Crane said the earlier findings were meaningless and ambiguous.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭pirelli


    Britian is tackling the problem of Forensic pathology in Britain. The revelation that Britian has a chronic problem was aggravated by numerous scandals and miscarriages of justice cases. Other countries with chronic problems are Austrailia and the republic of Ireland. Ireland has already reviewed it's coroner service several years ago but has much ground to cover to resolve the problems of Pediatric Forensic Pathology.

    Link to Ontarios Research paper coming out in Jan 2008

    http://www.goudgeinquiry.ca/policy_research/index.html

    There is a FREE book available for anyone who is Interested in miscarriages of Justice.Scroll down to the end of the page and you can save or run it or store it in PDF form.

    http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:DtEX8s8sAY0J:www.innocent.org.uk/cases/kevincallan/index.html+Forensic+pathology+services+miscarriages+of+justice&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk

    It is the story of Kevin Callan a man who from his prison Cell defied the experts by studying Neurology and neuro-pathology. Kevin Callan won his freedom and admiration.Lord Justice Swinton Thomas praised Mr Callan's "tireless" work to establish his innocence since his trial and declared his conviction for murder "unsafe and unsatisfactory".


  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,774 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Thread "unsafe".


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