WhiteWolf - "An Mac Tíre Bán" <rayh(removespamblocker>@iol.ie>
2006-09-08 13:58:41 UTC
After 30 years, a man has had his conviction for membership in youth wing of the
IRA overturned... Ah! British Justice.... At this rate, in about 120
thousand years, the Brits will finally admit that Bloody Sunday was a murderous
atrocity and offer an unconditional apology to the victims and their families...
I'm wondering if Mr. Mulholland shouldn't sue the British Government for
compensation based on the fact that he has had to go through life with this
conviction on record and how it might have effected his employment
opportunities... I'm thinking he should go for 100 million Euros...
These kinds of miscarriage of justice cannot and should not go without some sort
of recompense for the victim.
What say you?
Ray
BBC NEWS
Teenage IRA conviction overturned
A teenager jailed nearly 30 years ago for membership of the junior IRA has had
his conviction overturned.
Paschal John Mulholland, 46, from Woodside Hill, Portadown, served a year in
borstal after he was convicted.
He was 16 when arrested on suspicion of involvement in a gun and petrol bomb
attack on an RUC patrol in 1976.
Mr Mulholland said he had been mistreated in police custody and only admitted to
the charge because he was frightened.
ln 2000 his case was taken up by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC),
the independent body set up to review suspected miscarriages of justice.
The CCRC referred the case to the Court of Appeal after it had carried out a
detailed investigation.
Lord Chief Justice Sir Brian Kerr, who heard the appeal with lord justices
Nicholson and Campbell, said the mistreatment evidence raised a considerable
doubt in their minds as to the safety of the conviction.
He said that had the trial judge, the late Lord Lowry, been aware of the
allegations against two detectives he would have been slow to conclude beyond
reasonable doubt that Mr Mulholland's allegations about mistreatment were
untrue.
Sir Brian said the evidence of the medical officers who examined Mr Mulholland
was "compelling and damning."
Mr Mulholland, in a statement released through his solicitors Harte Coyle
Collins, said: "I am delighted with this result. It's just a pity I had to serve
a year in custody."
His solicitor said her client would now be pursuing a claim for compensation.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/northern_ireland/5327370.stm
Published: 2006/09/08 12:03:54 GMT
© BBC MMVI
IRA overturned... Ah! British Justice.... At this rate, in about 120
thousand years, the Brits will finally admit that Bloody Sunday was a murderous
atrocity and offer an unconditional apology to the victims and their families...
I'm wondering if Mr. Mulholland shouldn't sue the British Government for
compensation based on the fact that he has had to go through life with this
conviction on record and how it might have effected his employment
opportunities... I'm thinking he should go for 100 million Euros...
These kinds of miscarriage of justice cannot and should not go without some sort
of recompense for the victim.
What say you?
Ray
BBC NEWS
Teenage IRA conviction overturned
A teenager jailed nearly 30 years ago for membership of the junior IRA has had
his conviction overturned.
Paschal John Mulholland, 46, from Woodside Hill, Portadown, served a year in
borstal after he was convicted.
He was 16 when arrested on suspicion of involvement in a gun and petrol bomb
attack on an RUC patrol in 1976.
Mr Mulholland said he had been mistreated in police custody and only admitted to
the charge because he was frightened.
ln 2000 his case was taken up by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC),
the independent body set up to review suspected miscarriages of justice.
The CCRC referred the case to the Court of Appeal after it had carried out a
detailed investigation.
Lord Chief Justice Sir Brian Kerr, who heard the appeal with lord justices
Nicholson and Campbell, said the mistreatment evidence raised a considerable
doubt in their minds as to the safety of the conviction.
He said that had the trial judge, the late Lord Lowry, been aware of the
allegations against two detectives he would have been slow to conclude beyond
reasonable doubt that Mr Mulholland's allegations about mistreatment were
untrue.
Sir Brian said the evidence of the medical officers who examined Mr Mulholland
was "compelling and damning."
Mr Mulholland, in a statement released through his solicitors Harte Coyle
Collins, said: "I am delighted with this result. It's just a pity I had to serve
a year in custody."
His solicitor said her client would now be pursuing a claim for compensation.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/northern_ireland/5327370.stm
Published: 2006/09/08 12:03:54 GMT
© BBC MMVI
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