And the appeal process was thwarted at every turn.
A friend of mine is a law lecturer and she always does a test on her pupils where she sets up a surprise "crime in her class" with some visiting "students" stooges , who fake a crime and then run out of the class - then she asks them all to write down a description . It is amazing how much it varies.
Not only the description of the people but actually what happens. Then she asks them again a few days later and it changes even more.
So if you do see a crime you should always write things down immediately . But even that did not happen in this case.