Don't you think it is far-fatched to claim that everyone in this case lied - Not just the police, Julie Mugford and all of the wider family, but the expert witnesses?
I don’t think that he claims that everyone lied but a significant portion did. Either lied or gave evidence that was incorrect. I think that quite a few witnesses misled the jury in varying degrees, and that rankles with him. As his lawyer said when the submission was made, the new information completely contradicts the prosecution narrative.
To give just one example of an expert witness misleading the jury:
John Hayward deception-
The Jury was hoodwinked by the Prosecution in relation to blood said to have been found inside a silencer. It seems that in the two or three days available to the prosecution prior to the trial, as a way of obscuring the information that had come to light about the origin of the blood which could have belonged to Robert Boutflour, the police or the prosecution deliberately produced a list which the prosecution referred to at the trial, but the list intentionally omitted any of the relative’s names, including, crucially, Robert Boutflour. Therefore, when giving witness testimony, forensic scientist John Hayward referred to the ‘list’ and as a result Hayward was able to tell the court that the only person on the list whose blood was found inside the silencer was Sheila Caffell.
The questioning of Hayward by Arlidge for the prosecution was seemingly purposely misleading. The following exchange took place in relation to blood found inside the silencer:
”Q) Mr Arlidge: Did you test further any of that blood?
A) Hayward: I did, Sir, and found that this blood was also of human origin, and I obtained grouping reactions for group A PGM1+EAP BA AK1 Hp 2-1.
Q) Mr Arlidge: Looking at those items you have given…it appears that those correspond with the grouping that you found for Sheila Caffell?
A) Hayward: That is correct Sir
Q) Mr Arlidge: But not with anybody else on our list?
A) Hayward: That is correct Sir.”
The list that Arlidge referred to contained the names of the five victims plus Jeremy Bamber. Therefore, Mr Hayward answered truthfully that the only person on that list with the blood group A PGM1+EAP BA AK1 Hp 2-1 was Sheila Caffell.
However, Mr Hayward was aware that blood samples had been taken from some of Jeremy Bamber’s relatives and the blood was also an identical match for Robert Boutflour. Mr Hayward did not disclose this to the Court, neither did anyone else on behalf of the prosecution.
Forensic scientist John Hayward also testified as follows in reference to a small flake of blood said to have been found inside the silencer:
Hayward: I found that this blood was also of human origin, and
I obtained grouping reactions for group A PGM1+EAP BA AK1 Hp 2-1.
Q) Mr Arlidge: Looking at those items you have given… it appears that those correspond with the grouping that you found for Sheila Caffell?
A) Hayward: That is correct Sir
However, that testimony is false in two respects (a) Hayward did not actually test any of the blood, it was cut into five tiny pieces and analysed by five separate junior staff, and (b) chart notations by his five junior staff show conclusively that Hayward did not have two consistent results in the HP2-1 group nor in the AK1 group, nor in the ABO A grouping.
Therefore, his own criteria for blood testing, i.e. the necessity to have two confirmed results, was not met by the sample analysed and, in respect of the first two questions asked by the Jury regarding the blood in the silencer being a “perfect match of Sheila’s blood”, the truth is that only one single blood group had two consistent tests, EAP and BA. John Hayward was seemingly deliberately misleading when he said that the blood found in the silencer was a match for Sheila Caffell and that he had any involvement in analysing it.
If the five junior staff from Hayward’s team had been called to give evidence, three of them would have to have admitted that their blood testing was inconclusive and therefore the blood in the silencer could not reliably be attributed to Sheila Caffell.
