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Angela Grobben's Human Rights: My name is Charity Lee: My name is Charity Lee. In 1980, when I was only six years ol... http://t.co/VhKAG6Vr

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About the Project: Angela Grobben: Human Rights Correspondent A life long human rights campaigner Angela's organisat... http://t.co/0pkXFeTy

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Angela Grobben's Human Rights: Bill Pelke & The Journey of Hope: Journey of Hope…from Violence to Healing The ... http://t.co/wsyQWq1V

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About the Project: Patron : Michael Mansfield QC Called to the Bar in 1967 Michael Mansfield has a BA Hons. degre... http://t.co/hXJPb2ed

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About the Project: FIP Supporters: Gareth Peirce – Solicitor specialising in defence work. She has represented too ... http://t.co/3Jt0cqLm

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News: Unfit for Purpose: Independence An Independent EyeLast year an important anniversary passed without note. Th... http://t.co/RgClKjCT

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Lynette White: In The Name of God, Go!: In The Name of God, Go! “You have sat too long here for for any good you h... http://t.co/E1rUtVpn

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Columbia: Eyes on the Prize: Mainstream AgainConservative hegemony over Colombia had waned at gunpoint thanks to ... http://t.co/Nr1qMZFR

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Career Villains

Written by Satish Sekar

Framed
George Allen was a career villain and friend of the perjurer, Brian Sands. Allen was involved in the notorious Ged Corley case (an attempt to frame a police officer – two actually – that eventually collapsed). He ensured that Sands made no mistake in his claims about PC Corley by observing the layout of the car-park of the Lively Lobster public house and provided Sands with that information.

Sands was the leading villain in the Corley Conspiracy and received his reward until the conspiracy unravelled. Allen escaped sanction over his role in this perversion of the course of justice, having been dismissed as Sands' errand boy, but his role was essential in the execution of the conspiracy.

Allen is a villain in his own right. He received a paltry sentence of four years for the armed robbery. He was supposedly friends with Michael Royle, but the friendship was strained over a relationship with one of Allen's girlfriends. He had access to Royle's home. Allen claimed that Royle had master-minded the robbery of Jackson's Boat public house and that he committed the robbery with Royle and Robert Hall. Some alleged proceeds from the crime and tools of the robbery trade were found in Royle's property, but that was consistent with Allen having left it there to incriminate his 'friend.' He did the same to one of his girlfriends, Andrea Bluer, although that would later backfire.

Justice Denied
David Poole took silk in 1984. Although the QC made his name prosecuting, Poole was an able defence lawyer too and represented Royle. George Allen, a self-confessed accomplice, portrayed himself as Royle's lackey on the Jackson's Boat robbery. Three men committed the crime. Allen was definitely one of them, but was allowed to be the main witness against Royle and his co-accused Robert Hall. They were convicted and received sentences appropriate for armed robbery.

However, Allen did extremely well out of it. He was living proof of the wisdom of the eminent British jurist Sir Matthew Hale's warning about desperate villains using and abusing the criminal justice system almost three and half centuries earlier.

Poole ably destroyed Allen's credibility and that of Bluer, who needed corroboration herself, rather than be seen as supporting Allen. Royle's and Hall's convictions were quashed in July 1992, although the abolition of corroboration requirements offer villains like Allen the opportunity to commit further crimes and blame others for them.

From Silk to Red Robes
Three years later Poole represented the footballer Eric Cantona after the Frenchman reacted to racist provocation by so-called fan Matthew Simmons. Poole successfully appealed Cantona's prison sentence on the grounds that he was being punished for his celebrity, rather than because the offence was serious enough to deserve two weeks imprisonment. Cantona was soon granted unconditional bail, pending an appeal. Poole later succeeded in getting Cantona's punishment reduced to 120 community service. It was one of the QC's last cases.

Poole was knighted later that year, as David Poole QC became Mr Justice Poole. Few judges knew the dangers of those 'kind of approvements' better than Poole, so how did he handle the central issue of Damien Daley's credibility in the retrial of Michael Stone? “The evidence of the main prosecution witness, Damien Daley should not be dismissed just because he is a self-confessed liar,” Poole told the jury.

There was no proof whatsoever that Stone had confessed to Daley apart from the word of a self-confessed liar, perpetual criminal, heroin addict and perjurer and without that there should have been no case. This form of evidence provides one of the richest veins in producing miscarriages of justice.

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