Barry George had a history of crime and violence.
He was convicted on a 10 - 1 verdict.
His first appeal failed. His second appeal was based on the unlikely assumption that armed police put the gun shot residue into his jacket when they went to his house to arrest him. However this worked although he was denied compensation.
Hi Adam,
Are you aware that Barry George's sister, Michelle Diskin, is now a patron of the Jeremy Bamber campaign?
She also once supported the SH campaign.
Following SH's confession Michelle Diskin made the following public statement:
"ANONYMOUS
September 10, 2013 10:04 am
As a family member of a terrible miscarriage of justice, the victim being Barry George, convicted of the murder of Jill Dando; the Simon Hall confession is a concern because it is already so difficult for true MOJs to be believed by the public; this confession damages the credibility of all those still fighting for justice.
But this is just one case. The British Justice System makes many, many more errors when it choses to build its cases around a person, rather than on the actual evidence. One confession is not a comfortable situation for those fighting miscarriages of justice, but is it worse than keeping hundreds of innocents locked up for crimes they did not commit? All of us who choose to stand up for justice need to take this on the chin, and move on…back to those who deserve to have their cases reviewed and quashed.
Our justice system uses ‘smoke and mirrors’, rather than real honest evidence to convict. The B George case is one…but the parallels with the Barri White/Keith Hyatt conviction are evident; the case was fitted around the defendants, and not around the evidence.
I eagerly await the government’s response to Barri and Keith’s new claim for compensation. Keith was released at the court of appeal, but Barri went on to re-trial. Does this mean that Keith will be successful but Barri’s claim will not? After all, if the legal view is that the CPS were not wrong to prosecute Barry George, because they had evidence, and he is not a MOJ because he went for re-trial, then poor Barri will face the same prospect…won’t he?
Lorraine Allen was released by the court of appeals, too. She too was refused compensation, so she took her case to ECHR, and lost…because she did not opt for a re-trial. Barry George DID, and was told this was the reason that he did not qualify. Who can now receive compensation for wrongful conviction?
Questions to ponder…and yet another battle for all of us, to demand fairness from this unjust system.
Michelle (Diskin) Bates
I did attempt to highlight this before but as usual the thread was taken off topic and derailed by others with an apparent ulterior agenda.
To confirm, SH was guilty, his motive was to apparently rape his victim, certain individuals knew he had lied (not me) and like many cases of this nature the police made errors.
http://thejusticegap.com/2013/09/simon-hall-confession-a-time-to-take-stock/
http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,6640.0.htmlI found her following statement dismissive for many reasons
"All of us who choose to stand up for justice need to take this on the chin, and move on…back to those who deserve to have their cases reviewed and quashed. but not least of all because it shows ignorance and indeed bias and there is nothing objective in this statement.
She refers to
smoke and mirrors but doesn't explain what she means by this suggestion.
She also uses the Barry White and Keith Hyatt case as a comparison to her brothers case, but the two cases are poles apart. White and Hyatt were clearly again genuine MOJ victims. Restaurant worker Shahidul Ahmed was eventually found guilty for the Rachel Manning murder.
