This is an extract from the EADT online newspaper here published 13th September 2102 Detectives are investigating abuse claims by more than 60 former pupils of a Suffolk school in what is now believed to be the county’s largest inquiry of its kind. Ex-students of Oakwood School in Stowmarket, which closed in 2000, have made various [...]
Police orchestrated a cover-up over their role in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster
September 13, 2012 from Leave a Comment
David Cameron today told the Commons that police orchestrated a cover-up over their role in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, in which 96 people died, and there was a campaign to smear the dead. This is his statement in full Today the Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Reverend James Jones, is publishing the report of [...]
Historic convictions for consensual acts to be deleted
September 12, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Historic convictions for consensual acts to be deleted The Home Office will, from 1 October, begin the process of correcting an anomaly in the criminal records system which has for decades seen gay men unfairly stigmatised. Anyone with a historic conviction, caution, warning or reprimand for consensual gay sex, that meets the conditions laid down [...]
Disclosure and barring – Government update advice for police officers
September 8, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Disclosure and barring Information on changes to disclosure and barring, which will come into force in September 2012, is available in the leaflets below. There is a leaflet covering England and Wales, as well as a separate leaflet for changes in Northern Ireland. There is also a Welsh language version. Date: Thu Jun 07 15:36:00 BST [...]
Panorama to show programme on the Lynette White case
August 13, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Fresh concerns are to be raised in BBC Panorama programme about the way the investigation into officers involved in the miscarriage of justice surrounding the Lynette White murder in 1988 was set up. Panorama, Justice Denied: the Greatest Scandal? BBC One, Monday, 13 August at 20:30 BST then available in the UK on the BBC iPlayer.
Policemans disciplinary record not disclosed to Jury
August 7, 2012 from Leave a Comment
The following article by Paul Lewis appeared on Guardian Online on 20th July PC Simon Harwood has been cleared of manslaughter of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson during G20 protests. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images The Metropolitan police attempted to keep the disciplinary record of PC Simon Harwood secret from the family of Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller he struck [...]
Detective Constable held on suspicion of perverting the course of justice – suspicion he may cut corners about charging decisions
June 12, 2012 from 1 Comment
According to a story in The Independent the Metropolitan police is reviewing 63 sex-crime investigations dating back more than two years after a detective on its specialist rape-inquiry team was arrested over allegations of falsifying crime records. ‘A Detective Constable from the Sapphire sex-crime unit was held on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. [...]
Police watchdog chief calls for more powers for the police to more effectively investigate themselves.
June 6, 2012 from Leave a Comment
This article was written by Paul Lewis, Vikram Dodd and Rob Evans for the Guadian and appears on their website here on the 24th May 2012 The police watchdog chief has called for more powers for the police to more effectively investigate themselves. The police watchdog has revealed how more than 8,500 allegations about corruption have been recorded by forces [...]
The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2012
May 22, 2012 from 1 Comment
The Government have announced dates for the implementation of the Protection of Freedoms Acts which will come into force on an incremental basis. Details have been published in The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2012 issued on the 2nd May 2012 Of particular interest to falsely accused cares and teachers will be arrangements made [...]
Sam Hallam released after seven years in prison
May 20, 2012 from Leave a Comment
This article by Sandra Laville, crime correspondent appeared here on the Guardian website on 17th May 2012 Sam Hallam became one of the youngest victims of a miscarriage of justice on Wednesday when the court of appeal released him after he served seven years for murder. Hallam, 24, emerged with his mother on to the steps [...]
The Mysterious MAPPA
May 3, 2012 from Leave a Comment
There is a very good article by Emma Davies and Lucy Batten, solicitors from Hine Solicitors in this months Insidetime issue. The mysterious MAPPA… MAPPA applies to a large number of inmates in England and Wales and you may therefore have previously heard the term or seen it referred to in reports compiled by the Probation [...]
Teacher falsely accused of paedophilia in “Ku Klux Klan-like” internet campaign
May 3, 2012 from Leave a Comment
This article has been extracted from the Daily Telegraph 3rd May 2012. Neil Carr, 25 – who is heterosexual but celibate – was placed under investigation after a colleague overheard two young boys say to each other: ”Mr Carr is gay” during a conversation in a corridor. When asked about their comment both boys claimed [...]
Former police officer awarded over £800,000 compensation
April 17, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Excerpt from the Guardian published on 16th April 2012 An Asian former police officer who was racially abused by colleagues at Cleveland police then set up and jailed for a crime he did not commit has accepted compensation from the force of more than £800,000. It is believed to be one of the largest claims [...]
Mother jailed for falsely reporting her daughter had been abducted from her backyard
April 14, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Excerpt from the Guardian 12 April 2012. A mother of four has been jailed for six months for falsely reporting her daughter had been abducted from her backyard. The bogus account of how her two-year-old child was snatched from her home in Blackpool, Lancashire, led to a 13-day police manhunt and the arrest of two [...]
IPCC criticise police for failure to disclose evidence
April 6, 2012 from Leave a Comment
From: The Guardian IPCC finds a collective responsibility for failure to disclose undercover officer’s recordings to activists Police have been criticised for their role in withholding crucial surveillance recordings made by undercover policeman Mark Kennedy. The tapes were kept from activists who were being prosecuted for planning to occupy one of Britain’s largest power stations. The contents contained [...]
Police to pilot new scheme through which information about a person’s alleged violent offending can be released to their partners
March 5, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Four police forces will pilot a new domestic violence disclosure scheme, the home secretary announced today. Police in Greater Manchester, Gwent, Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire will run a 12 month trial of the domestic violence disclosure scheme (DVDS) from the summer of 2012. The pilot scheme will test the methods used by police to help victims [...]
Teacher fails to persuade Court that information on an enhanced CRB ought not to have been disclosed
March 4, 2012 from Leave a Comment
An experienced teacher who previously worked in a special school and who had been successful in arguing that he had been unfairly dismissed sought a declaration by way of judicial review that the issue by the Defendant Chief Constable on 20th July 2011 of an Enhanced Criminal Record Certificate under section 113 B of the Police Act [...]
Judge critical of employers decision to refer complaint to the police
February 27, 2012 from Leave a Comment
The Court of Appeal recently considered a case involving two experienced nurses who were employed by the Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust who were dismissed for alleged alleged gross misconduct arising out of the way in which they handled a patient known a patient suffering from severe dementia. The full judgement can be found here. [...]
Police admit malicious prosecution of a serving police officer
January 27, 2012 from Leave a Comment
BBC North East report that A former Cleveland Police officer who was wrongfully sent to prison has been awarded almost £400,000 after an 18-year legal fight. Former traffic officer Sultan Alam, 48, was jailed for 18 months in 1996 for conspiracy to steal car parts, but was cleared by the Court of Appeal in 2007. [...]
Dramatic developments in the Eddie Gilfoyle case – ‘murdered’ wife’s secret diary found 16 years late
January 8, 2012 from Leave a Comment
A secret diary that could have cleared a convicted murderer was held by the police for at least 16 years while he remained in jail, protesting his innocence. Eddie Gilfoyle was jailed for life in 1993 for murdering his pregnant wife, Paula, by hanging her and making it look like suicide. The Times newspaper has [...]
Elizabeth Filkin’s advice to the Metropolitan Police on the ethical issues arising from the relationship between the police and press published
January 5, 2012 from Leave a Comment
The Filkin report – background In July 2011 there were perceptions that phone hacking at the News of the World was more widespread than had previously been identified, and that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) may not have investigated these concerns thoroughly. The then Commissioner of the MPS and an Assistant Commissioner resigned. In July [...]
Well over 900 serving police officers or PCSO’s have convictions
January 4, 2012 from Leave a Comment
The Daily Telegraph has reported (here) that well over 900 serving police officers have convictions. police officers. Forces across England and Wales employ policemen and women with convictions including burglary, causing death by careless driving, robbery, supplying drugs, domestic violence, forgery and perverting the course of justice. Those with criminal records include senior officers, among [...]
Young photographer compensated for being wrongly prevented from taking photographs of military parade
December 13, 2011 from Leave a Comment
Jules Mattsson compensated for military parade photo ban From time to time FACT has had occasion to be critical of young people who are browbeaten by police pressure. On this occasion we salute the action and determination of a young photographer who when asked by the police to stop photographing a military parade stood his [...]
CPS statement on R v Mouncher and Others
December 2, 2011 from Leave a Comment
Following the collapse of the trial the Crown Prosecution Service have issued the following statement CPS statement on R v Mouncher and Others 01/12/2011 The CPS has today decided to discontinue proceedings in the trial of eight former police officers accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Simon Clements, the CPS reviewing lawyer [...]