Home  Attitudes & Opinions I've just completed the equivalent of a FIVE YEAR SENTENCE for crimes I did not commit. |
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I've just completed the equivalent of a FIVE YEAR SENTENCE for crimes I did not commit. |
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Friday, 26 March 2004 |
I've just completed the equivalent of a FIVE YEAR SENTENCE for crimes I did not commit.
I was innocent when I was charged; I was innocent when I was convicted; I am innocent now and may be cleared.
But there are thousands of other victims with false allegations. Those innocent people who eventually have charges dropped or convictions quashed like ANVER SHEIKH, Basil
Williams-Rigby, Michael Lawson, David Luxford, myself and othes, are only the tip of the iceberg.
Britain's jails are not only crammed with mothers of tragic cot death babies convicted as murderesses but with sex offenders who are not sex offenders. Thanks to the brilliant efforts of GIOVANNI di STEFANO, some of the flaws in the prosecution against me have been revealed.
But how can you prove you didn't do something decades ago, when no evidence other than someone else's story is needed for conviction? And when, as I did in four of the six charges, you succeed in proving that something didn't happen when claimed, can it be fair for the Old Bailey judge to allow the dates to be changed (in one case by two and a half years) without allowing me a single second to discove or produce alternative alibis for the new time frames?
Is it right that people should be encouraged to make thousands of pounds in compensation and interview fees for inventing or exaggerating stories?** False allegations are the growth industry in crime, from Matthew Kelly to the Hamiltons, John Leslie, David Jones, various footballers, Mick Hucknall, Paul Weller...
Celebrities ar the prime targets but so are priests, teachers, care workers, foster parents, unfaithful husbands, spurned lovers...
It's time someone sat up and realised the damage that Britain's laws on sex offences are doing. Not only are they fundamentally flawed but hey breach the Human Rights Act again and again.
The freedom of one individual minor celebrity may be the return of the king but it's unimportant compared to the hundreds of miscarriages of justice now clogging up Britain's jails.
Now free the rest.
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