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Topic History of: Barry George
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Hale is portrayed in an uncritically positive light in this 2017 BBC article: Don Hale: One man's fight for justice
I agree that someone capable of doing that in one case could do it again. The BBC drama "In denial of murder" used to be on YouTube and I'm surprised to hear that Hale cooperated with it, as he didn't come out of it well. However, he was portrayed more as well-meaning but misguided, rather than devious or calculating.
There's an old TV documentary on YouTube "Murder in the Graveyard - BBC documentary - Wendy Sewell murder 1973" that I haven't watched, but dipping into it towards the end see that Hale is interviewed and claims to have received a threatening phone call from two men telling him to "leave it alone" or he'd be "blown away".
Here's another claim:
Now it’s revealed Barbara Castle drew up dossier on VIP paedophiles: File seized by Special Branch 'heavy mob'
The dossier was collated by the late Baroness Castle of Blackburn who handed it to Don Hale, the editor of her local newspaper, the Bury Messenger.
Mr Hale claimed a ‘heavy mob’ of Special Branch officers raided his office in 1984 and took away the file, threatening him with prison if he resisted.
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anon wrote:
“Investigative journalist Don Hale, who has visited George in prison, believes there are parallels with the case of Stephen Downing, who spent more than 30 years in prison for the murder of a woman in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The conviction was eventually overturned after years of campaigning by Mr Hale and others. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/spec...ndo-case-413556.html
“The former editor Don Hale was awarded an OBE for leading the campaign to free Stephen Downing from a life sentence for murdering Wendy Sewell in a Bakewell graveyard. Now police say he 'embellished' his account of events.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1422861/...ampaigners-case.html
“Hale saw the Court of Appeal verdict as a personal victory. He wrote a book about the campaign and co-operated with a BBC1 drama, in which he was played by Stephen Tompkinson. But police files show that Hale falsely portrayed Downing as an artless innocent who was wrongly accused while the guilty parties got away scot free.
The files demonstrate that he suppressed evidence suggesting that Downing was indeed the likely killer of Sewell, and fabricated “facts” to implicate entirely innocent people”
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“Investigative journalist Don Hale, who has visited George in prison, believes there are parallels with the case of Stephen Downing, who spent more than 30 years in prison for the murder of a woman in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The conviction was eventually overturned after years of campaigning by Mr Hale and others. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/spec...ndo-case-413556.html
“The former editor Don Hale was awarded an OBE for leading the campaign to free Stephen Downing from a life sentence for murdering Wendy Sewell in a Bakewell graveyard. Now police say he 'embellished' his account of events.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1422861/...ampaigners-case.html |
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hedda wrote:
Did like the stuff on Don Hale & MWT though but even though George got involved with them..at a time when the media painted them as heroes- not really his fault.[/quote]
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many assumptions in that article which we are told to accept but why?
while I have no idea of the truth how can the author know either/..
eg : she says of Barry George : "If you compare and contrast the two, and cross reference some of the material contained within, you will begin to recognise Barry George is not at all like the man his sister and others have attempted to portray to the public."
his uncle wrote a book which the author says we must accept over what others say..why?
Uncle may well be right but how can we know?.
Lots of weaving together there of other incidents totally unrelated to Barry George which are somehow meant to confirm the author's claims about George.
Talk about taking "same fact evidence:" to the extreme.
Did like the stuff on Don Hale & MWT though but even though George got involved with them..at a time when the media painted them as heroes- not really his fault. |
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