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- Thread starter Jimmy Clitheroe
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That is what the rumours say, but if that is true than what kind of family are they...and to wear insulting T shirts outside the court.....saying the murderer was still at large.
Fear for your family can be strong incentive , they say.
The lad was convicted on evidence of which we have no knowledge.
If jurors had any doubt then they would have brought in a not guilty verdict.
A unanimous verdict and they did not deliberate for very long either.
The earlier trial being abandoned because of a fake confession may have damaged any defence that there might have been....you do not try to fake a confession unless you think that there is a chance of things not going your way.
I don't know whether he did or not...but the due process of law has been followed and he takes the consequences of that
If jurors had any doubt then they would have brought in a not guilty verdict.
A unanimous verdict and they did not deliberate for very long either.
The earlier trial being abandoned because of a fake confession may have damaged any defence that there might have been....you do not try to fake a confession unless you think that there is a chance of things not going your way.
I don't know whether he did or not...but the due process of law has been followed and he takes the consequences of that
They have now started a petition on Facebook to get him freed
Trial by Facebook is a travesty....and he has been found guilty by a court of law.
A petition will not save him if he did this despicable act, but if new evidence is found (or the real perpetrator gets a fit of conscience...and I won't hold my breath on that one) then the verdict will be reversed...until then he is guilty, because his innocence was disproved.
Yes I know there have been miscarriages of justice in the past, but forensics have become very sophisticated, so unless they feel that this has been corrupted...
He will still be young when he gets out.
Lindsay was robbed of her life and her family will never get over that...ever!
A petition will not save him if he did this despicable act, but if new evidence is found (or the real perpetrator gets a fit of conscience...and I won't hold my breath on that one) then the verdict will be reversed...until then he is guilty, because his innocence was disproved.
Yes I know there have been miscarriages of justice in the past, but forensics have become very sophisticated, so unless they feel that this has been corrupted...
He will still be young when he gets out.
Lindsay was robbed of her life and her family will never get over that...ever!
I will certainly not be signing it. Until the lad stops saying "No Comment" which was no doubt drummed into him before his parents took him to the Police Station,then his fate is in his own hands.
The T Shirts were appalling.
Any family would want to believe that a member is innocent...and while we do not know the whole story, only that bit we are permitted to read in the papers....and that can easily be biased(either for or against the verdict).
If his family believe he is innocent, then there is a legal appeals process that they can follow.
But to wear such clothing is insensitive and graceless.
Any family would want to believe that a member is innocent...and while we do not know the whole story, only that bit we are permitted to read in the papers....and that can easily be biased(either for or against the verdict).
If his family believe he is innocent, then there is a legal appeals process that they can follow.
But to wear such clothing is insensitive and graceless.