well what about eddie gilfoyle. It was his wifes family that said she wouldnt have comitted suicide , her workmates said she had helped her husband prepare suicide notes for a course at work. The police began to listen to her family and hey presto guilty. He served 18 years and always protested his innocence. It went to appeal twice and i think its withthem again.
complete shambles by the police and lots ofexperts now saying it was suicide,
not sure what the outcome was but this is very similar. People just assume something and then truly believe it.
I actually saw Eddie's wife the week before she committed suicide.I was working for the NHS at the time doing a stint on Maternity and she looked absolutely beautiful with only a couple of weeks or so to go. She was a good looking woman who was always dressed immaculately and NOBODY would have thought that a tragedy was looming looking at her happy face.I can remember what she wore the last time I saw her.
Eddie also worked for the NHS at the sister hospital to where I was, and he was a theatre technician there who was at work on the morning that his wife had been found.
The whole investigation was an utter shambles and those who carried it out ought to be damn well ashamed of themselves. They had been sitting on vital evidence for 16 years that if it had been produced at trial,Eddie would never have gone to prison. Since his release in 2010,the poor man has been left in limbo with no word of his sentence having been quashed,let alone a pardon.
