Re: Dando killer wins right to appeal


"Paul Nutteing (valid email address in post script )"
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IMO the major flaw with the Jill Dando/Barry George
conviction was the "gun propllant" evidence. I'm
surprised Michael Mansfield QC did not show the jury a representative
7 micron particle. 7 thousandths of a mm across, you need
a pretty good microscope to see it. The original was consumed
in the gas chromatograph or mass spectrograph or whatever.
Only ONE particle landing on a jacket worn within a foot
of the shooting with no evidence of it being cleaned in the
intervening months. The source of this particle was more than
likely from when the jacket was removed from the exhibits
bag to be photographed . The previous week on the same
bench firearms had been photographed for forensic
purposes. Barry George's jacket was then rebagged and
sent to another lab for the chemical analysis. Only shown
to be chemically consistent with gun propellant, nothing
more identifying than that. ...

Moreover the BBC (IIRC) has now done much of the work that Mansfield should
have done in the first place by showing the American lab reports on how easy
it is to get inadvertent contamination with particles that small and how
they would never be used in evidence in a case over there.

In addition there are witnesses, one of them a vicar I believe, saying that
some of the police who went into George's house were armed which it appears
the police lied about in the trial. Add in all the other dubious factors in
this case and I would hope that even the most inept defence barrister can
now finally get him released.

Why though does it take so long for such obviously suspect cases to win
their right to appeal. The system still tries desperately to maintain the
impression that it can do no wrong when it clearly fails defendants time and
again.


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