The unsavoury practice of a persons wItness statement being (a) made by, (b) edited by, (c) para phrased by , and or (d) re-written, by another, in the absence of a witness, should cease and be discouraged immediately, and in instances where the case against a defendant relied upon such material (retrospectively), and where convictions have been secured because of it, those convictions should all be set aside, on the basis that the convictions are unsafe, and that the Criminal justice system has been brought into disrepute, by the introduction and reliance
Upon such evidence...