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Big Wullie · Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 1149 Location: Glasgow

I recall we did something in the forum about this expert witness who gave evidence in many trials in England.

Now after being sentenced to 5 years for giving false evidence in criminal trials he is found guilty of these heinous crimes.

What sort of checks are carried out on the experts used in our courts one wonders

http://www.heraldscotland.com/new...ials-was-sexual-predator-1.926410

I hope they fling the book at him.

I also wonder if every case he was involved in have had their cases reviewed ?

Bogus forensic scientist who conned his way into rape trials was sexual predator

Hoaxer Gene Morrison
heraldscotland staff

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Published on 15 Oct 2009
A bogus forensic scientist who conned his way into hundreds of trials has been convicted of a catalogue of serious sexual offences.

Sexual predator Gene Morrison, 51, targeted vulnerable young girls to satisfy his perverted fantasies, including the rapes of two girls aged 10 and 11.

His four victims came forward after his five-year jail sentence in February 2007 for posing in courtrooms as an expert investigator.

Morrison tricked judges, barristers, solicitors and police into believing he was qualified in forensics when he left school with no qualifications and downloaded sham degrees from a fictitious US university.

The judge who jailed him in 2007 branded Morrison an "inveterate and compulsive liar".

A jury deliberating over the sexual allegations against Morrison, better known as Rocky in his home town of Hyde, Greater Manchester, was not told of his past as a fake expert witness which can now be reported for the first time after restrictions were lifted.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to 33 charges - covering a 30-year-period - which the jury deliberated at his trial at Minishull Street Crown Court in Manchester

He maintained that when he accepted sexual relations took place with an adult it was consensual and that in other cases the girls were not telling the truth.

Morrison was convicted of three counts of child rape, six counts of indecent assault, four counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child and one count of perverting the course of justice. All the victims were aged under 16 at the time.

Morrison also faced sexual allegations involving six other women but was either cleared of the offences or the jury could not reach verdicts.

The Crown Prosecution Service today decided not to press for a retrial on any of the allegations which the jury could not decide upon, and reporting restrictions were lifted.

Prosecutor Neil Flewitt QC told the jury the defendant was a "sexual predator with a particular interest in young girls".

Morrison was a superficially charming and charismatic man who infiltrated the lives of children for the specific purpose of satisfying his own warped sexual desires, he continued.

"It is a recurring theme of the defendant's relationships with many of his victims that he would befriend them and gain the trust of families before inviting them to his home so that he could sexually abuse them without fear of detection," Mr Flewitt said.

He groomed the girls by treating them with money or presents but would use violence or threat of harm if they resisted his advances.

Several of them came into contact with him at a church which the deeply religious Morrison, of Martin Street, attended.

The jury was told of claims the defendant would slap one schoolgirl over her buttocks with a belt if she made any mistake when forced to read out lengthy passages from the bible.

He has two previous convictions for assaulting women - one he punched and the other was slapped across the face.

In cross-examination, Morrison conceded he had "struck out" against women but did not class it as violence.

Mr Flewitt accused him of being "hypocritical" as far as his religious beliefs were concerned.

Morrison agreed his religion was the "guiding light in his life" and that he tried to "copy the example of Jesus Christ", although he admitted "drifting away from the path sometimes".

Once-married Morrison also conceded he had firm views that Christian men engaging in sex outside marriage was wrong.

Morrison said: "We all have weaknesses. It is a matter of how you progress from that." Mr Flewitt replied: "You move on from one young girl to another, that is what you do.

"Your sex drive was the driving force in your life as well as your Christianity."

He will be sentenced next month.

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scotkaz · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 526

I hope they throw the book at him too!

Just goes to show that these so called experts have not had checks done on their credentials. Yet people who have had miscarriage of justices done to them cannot get jobs because their MOJ sentence has been kept on their record and not removed! This happened with Johnny Kamara in England. I am sure it has happened to others too

Iain McKie · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 262 Location: Ayr, Scotland.

One of the major issues in the ongoing Fingerprint Inquiry is the failure to ensure that the authorisation of experts and the evidence they give is subject to proper oversight.

Unbelievably despite the ongoing controversy over the SCRO experts the Crown Office and other agencies did virtually nothing until the Inquiry started.

The claim is that all the forensic sciences have been brought together under the umbrella of the SPSA. The reality is that the cultural and other failures that have dogged this evidence over the past few years are alive and well supported by a complacent and procrastinating justice system.

I look forward to the recommendations in this respect.

Lydia · Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 82

I look forward to a sentence, which fits the crime for me that would be that he never is allowed out of prison.

I am sure each one of us is considering how many innocent people have spent time in prison because of this man and then to consider the young lives ruined though his abuse makes me shiver.

I cannot even try to guess how much work is involved in reviewing his cases. The cost I am sure will be staggering. Then, will all these people be awarded compensation? There must be a way for the state to claim his assets.

Every time I hear a case like this what comes to mind is the young Mum’s sent to prison when their child died and because of an “expert witness” stating that more than one baby death must be murder, they were branded killers. I tried but could never even imagine how destroyed they must have felt as they were grieving for their children.
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FoolsGold · Joined: 07 Sep 2009 Posts: 12

In the USA the utterly bogus experts tend to be discovered far earlier in their careers simply because there will eventually be a defendant who has deep enough pockets that his lawyers will thoroughly investigate each and every proposed expert witness.

Its the poorer defendants who only have the services of an overworked and under funded public defender that have little chance of discovering an utterly bogus expert.