In taking on board your own experiences - how can you be sure that you are not in effect being fooled by 'Mick' Ainsley and others in this particular case?
You seem to be affording police a very elastic tolerance with regard to 'innocent' mistakes and administrative errors, faulty recording etc.
Good point but in order to have been fooled by Mick Ainsley and all the others, would mean (as has been stated before) they would all need to be disordered.
I have looked at this case from differing angles; most recently from the angle of pathology. From the angle of pathology and by applying what I learned in the SH case, I may be able to see things others cannot?
Each case should be looked at on their own merits. And in cases such as the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4, they were very different to Bamber's and SH's cases.
However there was a time when I compared their cases with SH's; which was a mistake.
As an outsider looking in, I can see, for example, Trudi Benjamin, making the same mistakes I once made. She appears in ore of people like Paddy Hill, who I think is an inspirational man however his case and his persona are far different from that of Bamber's.
With regards the police and innocent mistakes. I probably get pee'd off just as much as the next person when it comes to their mistakes. For example; Why didn't Suffolk police stick to the murder having had a sexual element; as opposed to going with a burglary gone wrong - which it was not?
Following SH's death in custody it became apparent to me numerous mistakes were made in relation to his care in custody and his subsequent death. Proving it however was another matter.
I wanted to learn if the mistakes were made on purpose? Did those people who made the mistakes have an agenda or ulterior motive? Were the mistakes made on purpose in order to fool others?
During SH's Inquest it became apparent the legal team and myself had made a mistake. Following another overdose and another hospital stay (Nov 2013) SH had told a prison officer he had tried to hang himself from his prison bed. The prison officer had written this down in SH's records
This prison officer found SH dead in his prison cell in Feb 2014.
It turned out our mistake was not recognising the prison officer had a brother with the same surname as the other working in the same prison.
The prison officer who SH had told about his hanging attempts, was not the same prison officer who found him, it was his brother. Although the one brother had noted down in SH records he'd attempted to hang himself, he did nothing else with this information.
We wrongly presumed all prison officers caring for vulnerable prisoners would read prisoners records - they do not. Nor do they make their colleagues aware of any concerns they may have regarding a prisoners disclosure of unsuccessful suicide attempts.
