Fake DNA evidence; "beefed up" evidence by police; "slapdash and cavalier"... does the Omagh bombing result ring any bells?

Four years in prison for innocent man.

Sounds like every day life in Great Britain this century to me.

Standard police behaviour. Ignore the truth; try for convictions.

And now the Northern Ireland Minister expresses disquiet.

Don't localise this. It is a national moral and practical problem.

Media madness - BBC news covers the fact that there may be DNA problems with dozens of wrongful convictions as a worry that "many defence teams may use this as a way to get convictions quashed" as opposed to "innocent men and women might get released now".

After Sally Clark and others, you'd think they would learn, wouldn't you?

And the quantity of innocent victims of miscarriages of justice who die shortly after their release (like Sally, Stefan Kiszko and many others) is horrifying.

This Xmas, spare a thought for the innocent victims of dodgy police and CPS behaviour who will never be able to prove their innocence.

I think I mentioned it a previous thread..the sensational case in the Northern Territory and the missing British backpacker-presumed murdered-Peter Falconio.

Daily Mail journalist Richard Shears wrote a book about the dubious evidence..DNA-2 drops only used to convict him..the same DNA method used in the Omagh bombing case and now:
"Falconio murder case 'should be reopened'"
SUSPENSION of a highly-sensitive form of DNA testing in the UK has sparked calls here for a re-examination of the evidence used to convict Bradley Murdoch of the outback murder of Peter Falconio.
Prosecutors in the UK are reviewing the use of so-called low copy number DNA testing, after a judge last week acquitted the only man charged with murder over the 1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, which killed 29 people.
President of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties, Brisbane lawyer Terry O'Gorman, said he understood the same technology was used to convict Murdoch of the 2001 murder in the Northern Territory.

www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22966292-2,00.html

## there has been much speculation that the police in the NT were leaned upon by politicians to get a quick result-the backpacker tourist industry in the Outback is worth hundreds of millions of $$$.