The Cardiff Five
Innocent Beyond Any Doubt
Published on 15. November 2017
244 pages
978-1-910979-50-1 (ISBN)
Description
This fresh edition of Satish Sekar''s classic work brings events up to date as at 2017 and includes matters that the author was prevented from publishing sooner. Among other things it deals with the collapse of the 2011 trial of police officers and others concerning the original miscarriage of justice in this case and in a new Epilogue calls for a Truth and Justice Commission. The author shows how this extreme miscarriage of justice destroyed families, divided communities and undermined confidence in the criminal justice system. The book takes the reader from the sadistic killing of Lynette White in Cardiff in 1988, via the subsequent investigation and trial to the aftermath of the folding of the 2011 trial over 'lost' documents that later materialised. But above all, it deals with the hard scientific facts of the first vindication case of the DNA-age. Based on a 30-year quest for justice. Scrutinises the case from day one. Rejects moves to 'shelve' this troubling chain of events. Calls for a Truth and Justice Commission.
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright and Publication Details
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Publisher's Note
- The Author
- The Author of the Foreword
- Foreword
- Support for Satish Sekar
- Dedication
- Introduction
- The End of the Beginning
- A Pattern of Concern
- The Unit
- Tariff Outrage
- Pressure?-?A Force to be Reckoned With
- A Daunting Task
- The Precedent
- The Transition to PACE
- The Post-PACE Act Cases
- Cranking up the Pressure
- Advances in Forensic Science
- A Substantial Clue?-?Blood Grouping
- DNA
- Advances in DNA-testing Systems
- Reopened
- The Prediction
- The Prediction Comes True
- Appendix to Chapter 2
- The Unit: Unsolved and Unresolved Homicides
- Cold Cases
- Why Bother?
- The Quest for Vindication
- Making History
- Further Resolution
- The Pioneering Unit
- The Review Process
- The Major Crimes Review Unit
- Hacking and Lay Advisory Groups
- Warts and All
- Committed?-?The Investigation After Hacking
- Broken Promises
- Regaining Trust
- Phase Two
- The Scientific Evidence
- An Integrated Approach
- Independence and Verification
- DNA
- Closing in on the Killer
- Proved Innocent
- Identifying the Killer and the Implications
- The Sweep
- Inspired
- The Case for a Complete DNA Database
- The Identification of Cellophane Man and its Implications
- The Arrest and Aftermath
- Unmasked
- Too Easy
- Arrest and Aftermath
- Guilty?-?History is Made
- Remand
- Guilty
- Harrington's Case
- Gafoor Responds
- The Aftermath
- Characteristics of a Killer
- Error of Judgement
- Professor Canter's Offender Profile of Lynette White's Killer
- Another Interpretation
- Accountability
- Lessons?-?Profiling Gafoor
- A Pitiless Coward
- Failing to Take Responsibility
- Unpredictable
- The Guilty Secret
- A Frighteningly Normal but Unusual Killer
- Under Fire
- Behavioural Investigative Advice
- Tariffs?-?Protecting the Guilty
- The Final Insult
- The Home Secretary Loses the Power to set Tariffs
- Tying the Hands of the Judges
- Gafoor's Tariff
- Sadism
- An Inappropriate System
- Preventing Miscarriages of Justice
- The Most Important Factor
- The Power of Vindication
- A Potent Weapon for the Innocent
- End of An Era
- Bullying of Children
- The Presumption of Guilt
- A Change is Gonna Come
- Posthumous Relief
- A Failure
- Travesty
- The Lessons
- Original Conclusion
- Vindication of the Cardiff Five
- Justice and Reconciliation
- A Need for a Fully Independent Judicial Inquiry
- And What of the Collapsed Trial?
- Epilogue: The Final Obfuscations
- Transforming Victory into Defeat
- Innocence Matters
- The Other Disclosure Issue
- Disclosure Obligations and Failures
- The Conspiracy that Never Was
- Moving the Goalposts
- Cooperation
- The Safeguards
- Truth and Justice
- Appendix 1?-?Judicial Murders in Cardiff
- Vindication
- A Major Hitch
- Appendix 2?-?Some Further Injustices
- Some Frequent Abbreviations
- Index
- Rough Justice
- The First Miscarriage of Justice
- Delusions of Innocence
- Three False Convictions, Many Lessons
