At the moment the CCRC have blocked me from contacting them with fresh evidence that has arisen out of the 'Hillsboro' inquests, relating to the 'tamperings' of 116 police officers witness statements (April, 1989), despite the fact that in September 1988 at my trial at Sheffield Crown court, before Judge Hunt and jury that my entire defence related to DC Richardson making a witness statement on behalf of DS Higham, which started off life as a 9 page witness statement, dated, 25th August 1987. By the time my trial got under way the statement had 'grown in size' to a 10 page statement, which arose because somebody had cannibalised the original witness statement, removed the original page 5 contents, added in two complete pages of additional evidence numbered 5 and 6, that had been typed out by use of a completely different typewriter, then altered the original page 5, 7, 8, and 9 page numbers, into page numbers, 7, 8, 9 and 10, without anyone knowing of the whereabouts of the original page 5 contents, or who had typed out the two retyped pages, or altered the page numbers. Nobody knew who was responsible for doing this, and I got convicted because the judge just carried on as though nothing unusual or out of the ordinary had happened. Can you honestly believe what lengths cops, the CP's and the judiciary will go to get their pounds worth of meat? Less than 7 months later, along comes the 'Hillsboro' tragedy, cops adopt same tactics used to prosecute me, they 'tamper' with and 'doctor' 116 police statements...
If judge Hunt had had the bottle at my trial to call a halt to the proceedings because cops weren't making their own statements, or editing them, I don't think the families, friends and the supporters would have had to wait 27 years for justice. It gets worse because at my appeal in 1994 , at the Royal Courts of justice, I being represented by Michael Mansfield QC, after an appeal lasting one week, the court dismissed my appeal, citing that if Mansfield sought to take the matter to the 'House of Lords' as he had indicated, then the court would have no option but to implement the 'priviso', which effectively resulted in no revised judgement of the findings in my appeal. This was done because the judiciary knew there was a tenuos lunk between the tactics used by South Yorkshire police, and the 'Hillsboro cover up tragedy, involving the unscrupoloys practice of cops making each others witness statements, and editing them, etc. At the time of my appeals refusal (February, 1994), the families of the 'Hillsboro' 96, were only coming up to the 5 year point of their 27 year long wait for justice. What I am saying that even at that stage (1994) the courts had the opportunity to open up the witness statement scandal now self evidence in the 'Hillsboro' co er up, by quashing my convictions for a similar evidential rwason. But, the various agencies of the state involved in these despicable practices were not yet prepared to yield to the as it now turns out to be the absolute truth and the injustice which the fabricating of these witness statements imposed upon so many victims and their families...
In 2010, the CCRC dragged out my application to have my case referred back to the court of appeal from as long ago as 2008 when I first lodged it. They eventually dismissed my application by deliberately lying to me saying that although the 42 page judgement, from the appeal, dated, February, 1994, had ' gone missing' and could not be found, they pursued my application on the basis that the court had dealt with all my grounds of appeal, despite me repeatedly informing them that my own grounds of appeal that the Registrar at the appeal court had asked me to submit, had not even got a mention during the week long appeal hearing. The CCRC were having none of it, their view prevailed and my application was dismissed...
However, since that time, a 42 page unedited version of the courts judgement at my appeal dated February, 1994, surfaced...
The court did not produce a Judgement because of the threat that they would implement the 'proviso' should Mansfield QC take the matter to the 'House of Lords'...
I have relodged my application to the CCRC, pointing out all the errors they made when dealing with my previous application (2008 / 2010), adding that I would be adding additional grounds to support my new application once the Inquests into the deaths of the 'Hillsboro' 96 victims. The CCRC have blocked me from sending them any more material or information because they are saying it is taking up too much of their time and is interfering with other applications that they are having to deal with...
Oh, its OK, I've only been waiting 28 years for justice to be done...
