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Topic History of: Has he realised the games up ?
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Jo |
Intriguing. Queensland must have been a wild place.
Hedda 2 wrote:
The point was...the author examined nearly 200 cases in the USA where dedicated lawyers got prisoners serving life declared innocent in re-trials after proving with the DNA evidence they couldn't possibly have committed the crime..
But in nearly every case...they plead guilty and signed confessions !!
Makes you wonder what kind of techniques the police applied, or perhaps lawyers advised them to confess. |
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Hedda 2 |
Just finished reading a book : The Most Dangerous Detective by Steve Bishop.
independentaustralia.net/australia/austr...erous-detective,8318
Superbly researched and all about a very bent (with numerous others) cop / detective in Queensland ( they used to call it The Deep North) during the 50 / 60 /70s.
Boy was it corrupt there but this one seems to have deliberately set up an innocent man to be hanged in South Australia before they abolished the death sentence and possibly murdered someone.
And then of course the really weird Lutheran New Zealander Sir Joh Belke Peterson came along as Premiere for 20 years in gerrymandered elections and refined bent cops so that even the Police Commissioner (a Pom eventually extricated from the UK to face trial) was on the take from brothels, bank robberies etc and if you arrived at the Premier's office with a brown paper bag of cash any ghastly development was approved...to the point the most beautiful beach in the world..Surfer's Paradise with it's glorious sea mist that comes in the afternoon .... the sun is sadly obliterated by mega story buildings that shade the beach from 4pm onward.
The point was...the author examined nearly 200 cases in the USA where dedicated lawyers got prisoners serving life declared innocent in re-trials after proving with the DNA evidence they couldn't possibly have committed the crime..
But in nearly every case...they plead guilty and signed confessions !!
How many more? How many executed or died in jail?
How many in Britain's jails?..especially after just watching Rillington PLace and poor Timothy Evans- executed |
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Christopher |
I sure do, everywhere I go, Prince Goes. He is well accepted everywhere and people that have got to know him over the years often come up to us in the street just to say 'Hi Prince'. He loves bus rides and always entertains people who cannot believe the beauty they are seeing, he shares himself and will sit on everyone's shoulder on a bus trip and people say it has made their day. No one forgets him. Someone came up to us the other day and remembered his name and said they had first met him in another town miles away. My late partner loved him more than life itself, as indeed I do. This is a recent photograph of us together with Prince and I wearing the same winter jumper. 
www.facebook.com/100945967075947/photos/.../?type=3&theater
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Christopher wrote:
I met Paul in a charity shop in Westbourne where I live last year. He was with his lovely little dog and I was with my lovely parrot Prince. Paul came over and admired Prince and we had a great chat. In my opinion I believe Paul's protestations. Just another woman after publicity and attention and FILTHY LUCRE.
Sorry, I know I am missing the point, but are you saying you walk round with your parrot? Like a dog?
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Sheba Bear |
Have Surrey Police done a welfare check yet? |
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hedda |
Sheba Bear wrote:
I couldn't quite get my head around the justification for tweeting Rolf Harris's name at such an early stage in the investigation and at a time when the newspapers weren't printing it. If I have read the response correctly, it seems that what is being said is that it was OK to have revealed Rolf's name at such an early stage because he was later found guilty.
Tweeting Rolf's name so early meant that any financially challenged, drink-sozzled, fantasising women who wanted to jump on the bandwagon had a lot more time to get their act together. Let's not forget his 'youngest victim', who he was found guilty of assaulting even though he'd never set foot in the community centre where it supposedly happened, with the conviction subsequently being overturned (something the tabloids like to forget, as he is still accused from time to time of 'assaulting girls [plural] as young as seven'). I wonder if she's had to pay back her £22,000 compo? I doubt it somehow.
I have never quite understood why he was able to reveal Rolf's name in the way he did, with impunity.
I met Rolf maybe 15 years ago and he was lovely..and he's 'tactile' person..held my hand as we shook and then my elbow as he listened intently to what I was saying.
Why do I recall he's physical action? Because I'm not a tactile person and sightly prudish ( I know I know) so I remembered.
Rolf was just being Rolf listening to some geezer ramble on...a polite and nice man and all his pals say the same that he puts his arm around them & loves to hug (men and women)...I can imagine some ghastly dames (with a large electricity bill) who he did likewise in his really friendly approach decided "that was an assault !!!!..2o Grand than you very much !" |
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