A nightmare scenario.

It certainly is frightening.

27 years ago people in the UK establishment were very reluctant to recognise that the police and the courts were capable of making even innocent mistakes.
 
This guy had learning difficulties too, so why the feck did they believe he had done it when he confessed to doing it, surely they are not that naive...

Or did the Police just want to clear their good-name and booster their ability to capture someone for the said killing????? I refer back to 27 yrs ago that is.....
 
Makes you wonder how many innocent people were and are (in countries like the States) murdererd under the guise of the death penalty? Like Songsheet said...the mental torment of being imprisoned for something you know you did not do must be so difficult to deal with.
 
Galileo said:
Makes you wonder how many innocent people were and are (in countries like the States) murdererd under the guise of the death penalty? Like Songsheet said...the mental torment of being imprisoned for something you know you did not do must be so difficult to deal with.
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I know from experience, and I have not had long to deal with it, it's not easy.
 
The world has changed so much in the last 27 years - not just technologically but in social attitudes and general behaviour. The poor man is going to have to cope with all that as well as the distress of having been locked up for so long for something he didn't do.

Can't begin to imagine how he must be feeling.
 
The worst aspect of the Kafkaesque situation which faces innocent people who are given life sentences is that if they carry on protesting their innocence they will never become eligible for parole. If it hadn't been for the heroic efforts of his legal team in overcoming the indifference and incompetence shown by the forensic services, Hodgson would have been left to die in prison.

How many more Hodgsons are there rotting away in the prison system?
 
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