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Big Wullie
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 Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: Cop Charged With "Perverting Course Of Justice" |
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The Case of Billy Allison and Stevie Johnston who were convicted of Murder and spent 10 years in Prison has re-emerged yesterday in the Sun:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26453069@N02/3893814054/sizes/l/
Richard Munro is charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice by withholding evidence which related basically to evidence regarding doubt over the timings of death.
Witness's had told the police Munro that they had seen the Victim days after the Courts claimed he was murdered.
Unknown to the Crown Office Mr Munro had withheld this evidence from them and resulted in the Judge at their appeal stating the following:
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/2006hcjac30.html
[ | Quote: | | 126] In the letter of 3 February the Deputy Crown Agent said that the procurator fiscal was satisfied that there was no intention on the part of the police deliberately to mislead him. That is not our conclusion. On the fuller information available to us, we conclude that the police deliberately misled the Crown in a serious way. The result was that the procurator fiscal, and in consequence the defence, were kept unaware of evidence having a material bearing on a vital issue. The police thereby induced the Crown to adopt the police theory of the date of the murder and to challenge the credibility and reliability of any defence witness who cast doubt on it. That, in our opinion, was grave misconduct. |
This and this alone is why a prosecution has been brought, and is the first of its kind in Scotland apart from Tommy Sheridan's.
Will be an interesting case to follow.
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FoolsGold
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:43 pm Post subject: SENIOR officers. |
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I am struck by how senior officers could be involved in such behavior.
If the police have improvidently adopted an erroneous viewpoint early in the investigation, I could understand a junior officer giving a contrary witness short shrift but as the number of contrary witnesses mushroomed I wonder how the police thought this could be ignored.
I do so hope that later versions of Incident Room Computer Programs provide for a more meaningful audit trail. |
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allan mcleod
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Similar to my nephew Kevin Mcleod's, Big Wullies and many others case's featured on this forum involving corrupt cops, here is yet another case which proves that there is indeed bent, twisted, warped, evil, sick, corrupt cops employed within our Scottish police forces.
Respect your local police force - Aye Right !! |
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Tom Shielding
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Those police officers who attempt to pervert the course of justice are a disgrace to the legal system and should be held to account for their actions. I note that many of them are now retired, no doubt to save embarrassment when and if they are found out for their dishonesty. |
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FoolsGold
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:49 am Post subject: Anything unusual ?? |
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Is there anything unusual with the handling of this case?
It seems the police in Devon were unable to find him but a newspaper was able to locate him. This would tend to mean that either the police were rather uninterested in finding him or the newspaper reporter is exceptionally skilled at his job and did what all those police officers with all their computers were unable to do.
He was charged some time ago so presumably that involved an arrest, booking and a court appearance but did this actually take place or was there some sort of expedited and less-public process?
He has now been notified of an indictment to which he will answer in early October. Is this any sort of preferential treatment or is this the usual and customary sequence and pace of events? |
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clarke
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:59 am Post subject: hi |
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Should punished severly....
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scotkaz
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http://www.mojoscotland.com/steven_johnston/b_s_appeal.html
| Quote: | | The police enquiry in this case was carried out by officers of Fife Constabulary. Within about three days after the finding of Andrew Forsyth's body, D Insp Richard Munro became the senior investigating officer in charge of the enquiry. He and DS John Nessel were the reporting officers. In 2004 Mr Munro, by then D Supt, resigned from the force in advance of disciplinary proceedings unconnected with this case. It appears that DS Nessel is no longer serving with Fife Constabulary. His present whereabouts were not established at the hearing of evidence before us. The enquiry was directed from an incident room of which the officer in charge was D Insp Derek McEwan. He too has resigned from the force and now lives in Spain. |
There is some interesting info on this link also
http://www.mojoscotland.com/steven_johnston/stitch_up.html
| Quote: | But now former senior policeman Munro, who headed the case a detective inspector, has admitted that Fife Constabulary went against procedure and misled legal teams preparing for the original trial.
Mr Munro, who has now left the police and runs a hotel, has faced three days of tough questioning at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh.
Lord Gill, sitting with Lord Osborne and Johnston, heard how police failed to pass on details of 11 witnesses who claimed to see M Forsyth after 3rd November 1995, the date detectives said he died.
Witness statements were no passed on to the fiscal who was preparing the case for trial and police "doctored" evidence, the court has heard.
After Mr Munro denied suppressing the evidence Lord GUI, Scotlands second most senior judge, told him "Let's have some straight answers to some straight questions." |
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Big Wullie
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