‘I saw a red car leave the line of traffic. Every bone in my body told me that car was overtaking. I thought, Oh shit. I prepared myself. ibid. witness
8th June 2014 Cheshire police receive a phone call. The emergency services find 42-year-old mother Rebecca Bamber in her back garden: she’s been stabbed 13 times and is pronounced dead at 8:07 am. After a police chase, the man seen leaving the scene, 39-year-old carpet fitter David Hoyle is arrested and charged with murder. The Prosecutors s1e2: The Proof
The Fox case: ‘He leaves a message saying, Warning, there are dead bodies inside’ … ‘This is a hammer [and knife] attack’ … ‘She’s 83’ … ibid.
Prosecuting violence against women and girls is now stated as a CPS priority. In 2014 police brought them over 100,000 cases to consider. The reviewing lawyer must decide whether there is sufficient evidence to prosecute and whether it isn’t in the public interest. ibid.
Paul Fox pleads guilty to the murder of his mother. The judge describes it as a sustained and vicious attack that deprived her of her last years in the world. ibid.
David Hoyle is going on trial for the murder of Rebecca Bamber … They find David Hoyle guilty of murder. ibid.
That trailer’s packed with evidence and we gotta get rid of it. Trailer Park Boys s2e7: The Bare Pimp Project, Julian to Ricky
I’ve been collecting evidence. Video tape evidence – forty-five hours on tape: Corey, Trevor, Ricky and Julian breaking the law. Trailer Park Boys s6e6: Gimme My Fuckin’ Money or Randy’s Dead, Mr Lehey to Randy
I’m working for the drug lab in Amherst … mostly to perform chemical analysis of suspected narcotics. Though I also help maintain some instrumentation. Do quality control. Testify in court. How to Fix a Drug Scandal I, Farak to rozzers, Netflix 2020
In the United States, if you’ve been arrested on illegal drug charges, the evidence against you is sent to a laboratory for testing. In Massachusetts, two labs handled most of the drug cases in the state. This is the story of what went wrong. ibid. captions
25-30,000 cases have been dumped in our laps. ibid. state attorney
In Massachusetts tonight a drug lab scandal … A state police chemist is suspected of altering drug samples, faking test results and listing some drug samples as positive even though she never tested them. ibid. television news
People were in prison based on drugs certificates signed by Sonja Farak. ibid. lawyer
I knew the Amherst lab was underfunded and didn’t have sort of basics. ibid. insider
35-year-old Sonja Farak was arrested on two counts of evidence tampering and two counts of drug possession. How to Fix a Drug Scandal II
Annie Dookhan: classifications that were going on that weren’t completely accurate. ibid. lawyer
Dookhan: she was faking, she was cheating … she was simply signing off and getting these cases out the door. ibid. dude
[Judge] Kinder decides that these criminal acts of Farak’s only go back to July 2012. ibid.
2011: I’d already exhausted the methamphetamine, amphetamine and ketamine standards, and then I did start trying to smoke crack cocaine … There was not a lot of it … and quickly became very addicted … I actually smoked in the evidence room. How to Fix a Drug Scandal III, Farak
She began cooking powdered cocaine into crack at her work station. ibid. dude
Chemist Annie Dookhan was sentenced to a three-to-five year prison term for falsifying drug tests affecting tens of thousands of criminal cases. But there has been little movement to deal with all of the convictions based on the lab’s testing. ibid. news report
Northampton chemist Sonja Farak gets 18 months in jail. ibid. newspaper headline
It took years to work out what cases she [Farak] had worked on. How is this possible? ibid. defense guy
They [the state] argue they [victims] can all be retrialled one at a time. How to Fix a Drugs Scandal IV, news report
There were thousands and thousands of criminal cases whose convictions are probably invalid. ibid. defence dude
She [Farak] was definitely a drug addict. And my natural tendency is to really sympathise with drug addicts, and feel like they are suffering. ibid.
Judge Carey issued his decision – the Carey Report – it vindicated Luke Ryan and found that Anne Kaczmarek and Kris Foster had committed ‘a fraud upon the court’. ibid.
Judge Carey dismissed the charges against Rolando Panate ‘with prejudice’. After 5 years in custody, Rolando was released. Rolando was among the last defendants to be released from prison because of tainted drug evidence from the Amherst lab. ibid. caption
But there were still tens of thousands of people with felony convictions on their records based on drug evidence tested by Sonja Farak or Annie Dookhan. ibid.
The largest mass dismissal of criminal convictions in US history. ibid.
Science, religion: at war for thousands of years. And yet today it may be the merging of faith and technology that brings us closer together to solving Life’s greatest mystery. Proving God, History 2020
‘As Science has got better and better, God has had less to do.’ ibid.
For centuries the Catholic Church waged war on Science believing its very existence could undermine the most sacred tenets of faith … Today there are signs of radical change. ibid.
It’s known as the Theory of the Fine-Tuned Universe: it holds that the exact conditions that hold for the creation of life are so precise that they could not randomly have appeared. ibid.
Archaeologists and relic hunters are also looking for tangible evidence of God on Earth. ibid.
In 960 B.C. the Ark was placed inside the first Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. This account in the Book of Kings is the last time the Ark is mentioned in the Bible. ibid.
Conspiracy theories? No, it’s about weighing up the evidence and deciding your own mind. Tony Farrell
Not everyone breaks down in front of the cameras. Sion Jenkins, flanked by his wife, was the model of calm control as he appealed for help after his foster daughter Billie-Jo was found murdered. 13-year-old Billie-Jo had been bludgeoned to death as she painted the patio doors of the family home in East Sussex. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s2e3: Crocodile Tears, ITV 2002
Police in Sussex say the 13-year-old girl who was murdered in Hastings yesterday had been attacked with a metal tent spike. Who Killed Billie-Jo? ***** BBC News, Channel 5 2022
Annie and Charlotte waited for their father outside the house. Sion came outside and took the girls to get the white spirit. Billie-Jo was left to paint the patio doors. ibid. captions
Part of a black bin liner was in one of Billie’s nostrils. ibid. rozzer
Police also received further reports about the man with a scar on his face who became known as ‘Mr B’. ibid. caption
Over the next three days, Sion Jenkins continued to give his witness statement. ibid.
Having found inconsistencies on Sion’s CV, the police looked more thoroughly at his movements on the day of the murder. ibid.
Results from the tests on the clothing were relayed to the investigation team. ibid.
Minute specks of blood on the clothing of Sion Jenkins. ibid.
Jeremy Paine and Kevin Moore reflect on how they interpreted Sion’s actions at the time. ibid.
She [wife Lois] recounted occasions when he hit her so hard that he perforated her eardrum. She accounted to me an occasion where he strangled her. ibid.
The prosecution set out to prove Sion Jenkins had an opportunity to commit the murder. ibid.
The circuitous route Sion Jenkins took to the DIY store [white spirit] became key to the prosecution case. ibid.
What Lois said her children had told me became a major point of contention in the case. ibid.
The conviction was quashed. After six years I was officially restored to a state of innocence. ibid. Sion
With the jury unable to reach a verdict, Sion Jenkins now faced going on trial for murder for a third time. ibid.
The jury at the trial of Sion Jenkins who is accused of killing his 13-year-old foster daughter Bill Jo has been discharged. ibid. BBC news
Mr B [plastic fetishist] was found when he was arrested by police to have bits of plastic all over, in his underpants, all over the place. ibid. evidence dude