After leaving the hospital Saba went into hiding. ibid.
‘This is what happens when honour is at stake … No woman should ruin her parents’ reputation.’ ibid. mother
‘People who visit my father tell me he is asking for forgiveness.’ ibid. Saba
‘If there is no justice, you can imagine how terrible the police will feel.’ ibid. rozzer
‘I am called an honourable man.’ ibid. father
‘In my heart they are unforgiven.’ ibid. Saba
The idea of an international rule of law appeals very fundamentally to our innate sense of justice … The Corbett Report: International Law, James Corbett online 2013
The CFR was behind the creation of the League of Nations. ibid.
‘A new partnership of nations has begun.’ ibid. George H W Bush
‘Empire-building throughout history is the result of conquest – the use or threat of a superior military force. The US global empire is no exception … They cite imperial legal doctrine to justify their intervention to suppress a subject people in revolt. While empires arose through the direct or indirect use of unbridled force, the maintenance and consolidation of empires requires a legal framework … Legality is really an extension of imperial conquest by other means.’ ibid. Professor James Petras
In December 1983 a man walked free from prison after serving six years of a sentence for a murder which he did to not commit: his name was Mervyn Jock Russell and he was the first man in British history to have a conviction quashed as a result of a television programme … In the 1980s British television led by a series called Rough Justice mounted a sustained attack on the British criminal justice system uncovering miscarriage after miscarriage. Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice, BBC 2011
The Judiciary struck back. It was a system in denial. ibid.
It would run on the BBC for twenty-five years. ibid.
Rough Justice knew that the only thing that would sway appeal court evidence is new evidence. ibid.
This was a time of very different police procedures. ibid.
Such clashes between government and media were becoming commonplace. ibid.
But Lane also decreed that while [Anthony] Mycock was innocent, the burglary itself had indeed happened, and his judgment carried the hint of trouble ahead. ibid.
They themselves had become the story. ibid.
Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 … The clamour to free them had reached fever pitch … It should have been central to the debate. ibid.
37 out of 38 convictions brought to the Court of Appeal were quashed. ibid.
In 1992 it was reduced to one case per year. ibid.
Criminal Justice Review Commission … Argued for since the 1960s. ibid.
Frederick Mallefroy: After he was charged [attempted GBH] he jumped bail; he’s one of thousands of criminals on the run. Exposure s1e5: On the Run, ITV 2011
There’s a lot of fugitives but not necessary a lot of people looking for them. ibid.
Last year almost 100,000 people either jumped bail or broke their licence conditions. ibid.
People on bail are a constant source of crime; last year one in ten offences was perpetrated by people on bail. ibid.
The casualties of our justice system speak out. Trials are being stopped too late in the day. Thousands of prosecutions are under review … Have the scales of justice tipped too heavily against the accused? Panorama: Getting a Fair Trial? BBC 2018
Failures in the criminal justice system have had disastrous consequences. ibid.
Tonight, two men – convicted murderers – who’ve always protested their innocence. Their last hope the Criminal Cases Review Commission but many believe it’s failing. We investigate cases the Commission has rejected and find evidence they overlooked. Panorama: Last Chance for Justice, BBC 2018
Last year it referred just 12 cases out of 1,500. ibid.
Eddie Gilfoyle: Another notorious murder case turned down by the CCRC. Eddie Gilfoyle spent 18 years inside and his case is one of the most bizarre in UK criminal history … ‘My brother has been convicted for a crime that didn’t happen.’ ibid.
‘The prosecution’s case is that before Eddie went to work he asked his wife Paula into the garage. Somehow Eddie had persuaded Paula to write a suicide letter in her own handwriting and asked her to walk up the ladder, put a rope around her neck and without any struggle or intoxication allow herself to be hung.’ ibid. Eddie’s solicitor
Key evidence was not disclosed. ibid.
Every 2 minutes in the United States someone is sexually assaulted. I Am Evidence, caption, Sky Atlantic 2018
Really stunning news today about the number of rape cases police have never even tried to solve, not even opening the rape kits. ibid. television news
It’s estimated that as many as 400,000 rape kits nationwide … ibid.
They have not been testing these kits for decades … We’re talking about poor black women. ibid. expert
The Savings and Loan crisis from the 1980s when 1,000 criminally fraudulent bankers went to prison. The Veneer of Justice in a Kingdom of Crime, 2016
2008: A $13 trillion crisis … The catastrophic failure in the United States Justice Department is the work of the treasonous criminals who are running it. ibid.
There was always something odd about the DOJ’s announcement that it wouldn’t prosecute Goldman Sachs. ibid.
The DOJ doesn’t investigate crimes of global banks for fear of ‘collateral consequences’. But who determines those consequences? … The exoneration of Goldman reflects the overthrow of America’s constitutional republic by a criminal king ruling over his subjects. ibid.
Is Wall Street too big for jail? ibid.
In 2014 there were over half a million criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. Each one was prosecuted not by the police but by the lawyers of the Crown Prosecution Service. In every serious criminal case the Crown Prosecution Service must decide who to charge and what to charge them with. The Prosecutors s1e1: The Charge, BBC 2016
The Charge: Cheshire September 2013: A mother taking her children to school is involved in a collision that leads to a road traffic fatality … He must review the evidence and decide whether Mr Maan should be prosecuted. ibid.
Death by Dangerous Driving [far below] cf. Death by Careless Driving [below]. ibid.
Some charging decisions take much longer. ibid.
The trial is unlikely to take place for another nine months. ibid.
The ATM burglaries generated thousands of pieces of evidence … ‘When the police arrive, they’ll make good their escape from the back’ … The case will go to trial. ibid.
‘More and more involved with the victims.’ ibid. CPS prosecutor
National Scrutiny Panel: Religiously Aggravated Crime: ‘The next case involved damage to a Mosque and a copy of the Koran had been thrown on to the floor and ripped, and there was also urine on the carpet … The jury came back with a not-guilty verdict.’ ibid. chair of panel
‘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 a.m. 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.