It shouldn't really be that easy to be " led up the garden path " where a mass crime is committed don't you think ?
No, it 'shouldn't', but I've expressed views on "shouldn't" numerous time. IMO. it's a word which serves little purpose. We've all been in situations when our work load has been so great we haven't known what to do first. It's usually during those times when errors occur. Where there are humans, there is likely to be fallibility. Where there are too few humans doing too much work loaded onto them by other humans, the fallibility is likely to be greater.
I truly don't know what the answer is, in this case -there is clearly more to the problem than Jeremy Bamber- other than setting up sub committees to root out those cases which are bogus BEFORE the CCRC sees them, but who's to say that would meet with approval, and who's to say that such isn't open to corruption? There is NOTHING which isn't open to corruption. I just believe that MOST people are honest.