Chris Mullin is a mercurial British politician. He is passionate about the plight of the innocent, and those wrongfully convicted by the system. He writes about this in his blog entitled – Miscarriages of justice in the UK. He not only gives a personal account of his experiences with victims, and how in his own little way he interceded on their behalf; but identifies the problems, progress made thus far, and solutions. He says for instance that -‘In the long run only a complete overhaul of the recruitment, training and disciplinary codes of the police will make any difference. In the meantime it must be obvious that the single most useful reform that could be made is to outlaw convictions on the basis of uncorroborated confession. The only admissible confessions should be those recorded in the presence of a qualified solicitor’.
He lampooned the police; the judiciary and Judges; the Home Office; the state of forensic science and concluded thus: ‘Locking up the wrong people is also very expensive. Tens of millions of pounds of public money has been wasted on apprehending, imprisoning and in due course compensating innocent people. Even those who do not care about the ruin of innocent lives, might at least reflect in these other aspects of a miscarriage of justice. Above all, however, wrongful convictions rot public confidence in our system of justice and that ought to concern all of us who care about upholding it’ Read entire commentary herehttp://www.chrismullinexmp.com/speeches/miscarriages-of-justice
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