"Criminology usually gives journalists bad press: the vital contribution made by dogged investigators from Paul Foot to Satish Sekar should be recognised. The latter’s extraordinary work on the case of the Cardiff 3 puts academic criminology to shame (Sekar, 1997). "

“... should be a permanent feature in any lawyer's office: a grim reminder of what went wrong, and a warning that nothing of the kind can be allowed to happen again.”
Paul Foot (investigative journalist at Private Eye)

“...Satish Sekar saw long before most others that something was terribly wrong with his [Stephen Miller's] case... Any person locked up in the awfulness of imprisonment for a wrongful conviction is lucky to have Satish for an ally. He persists. He is constant and he gets results.”
Gareth Peirce (Steve Miller's solicitor at the appeal)

“... if ever there was a case which demanded a judicial review to resolve the many causes for concern in the whole case, surely this was it. Knowing what I now know I have come to the conclusion that only a fully independent inquiry conducted by an external police force can answer the many questions that remain unanswered. The interests of justice and the memory of my daughter deserve nothing less. I am very grateful to Mr Sekar for bringing to my attention all the flaws in this case.”
Peggy Pesticcio (Lynette’s mother)

“... contains all the material for a devastating indictment of the adversarial system of justice as now practised.”
The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Lawton (former Lord Justice of Appeal)

“... most impressive book.”
Joshua Rozenberg (then Legal Affairs Correspondent of the BBC)

“Satish Sekar has done patient and exhaustive duty to the case of the Cardiff Three - a case which exposes so many of the institutional flaws which contribute to the miscarrying of justice.”
David Jessel (former presenter of Channel Four’s Trial And Error)

“The murder of Lynette White and the trial of the Cardiff Five is one of the most disturbing cases of recent years. Satish Sekar has written a painstaking and conscientious account of this extraordinary story.”
Duncan Campbell (former Crime Correspondent of the Guardian)

“What Satish Sekar illustrates in this detailed examination of the murder of Lynette White and the miscarriage of justice that befell the Cardiff Three is how important safeguards are. Even with the full right to silence, police obtained a damning and false confession in the case; the scientific testing of blood samples was neither conclusive nor revealed in its entirety to the defence... the Cardiff Three have been lucky in having Mr Sekar work painstakingly through the evidence, badgering lawyers, scientists, police and politicians with his findings. And even though the three are now freed and the injustice exposed, he fights on. His scrutiny of the DNA testing in the case forced South Wales Police to re-open the murder investigation.

Now, in Fitted In, he sets out the entire unhappy saga so that the public can see how easy it was to lock up the wrong men - and how we must ensure such mistakes are never made again. Mr Sekar says the memory of Lynette White deserves no less. Society and justice deserve no less.”
Heather Mills (then Social Affairs Correspondent of the Observer)

“This book is an admirable one for two reasons: it provides such an exhaustive and highly readable account of this especially vexed case; and Sekar analyses how the defects of this one extraordinary inquiry throw light on the malpractice and incompetence that is all too frequently to be discovered at the heart of the judicial process. Sekar’s own fresh investigation of this case has uncovered valuable information. In the light of his painstaking work, the inquiry ought to be fully re-opened.”
Bob Woffinden (author of Miscarriages of Justice and Hanratty: The Final Verdict)

“... should become a classic.”
Corin Redgrave (actor and producer)

“Fitted-In provides a fascinating analysis of one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice in British history. The book has also played a key role in the slow unravelling of the case and the process of obtaining justice for the victims of the miscarriage.”
Nogah Ofer (Solicitor of Yusef Abdulahi, John Actie and Tony Paris)

“I have no doubt that as legal aid funding for appeal work continues to fall to such a low level that only the mad, bad, or unqualified can afford to get involved in this work, heroically persistent and intelligent journalism such as this will be the only hope for the victims of unimaginably horrible injustice.”
Greg Stewart (solicitor original defendant in the Damilola Taylor Inquiry)

“There can be no doubt that but for Satish Sekar's tireless determination, the real killer of Lynette White would never have been caught.”
Martin Shipton (Chief Reporter of the Western Mail)

“The impact was tremendous. Had there been no book, there would have been no enquiry.
The book was much in the vein of Emile Zola's J'accuse, which started an almost similar enquiry a hundred years back.”
Professor Anil Aggrawal (Forensic Pathologist - India)

“To have proved three convictions wrong; to have helped secure the release of the wronged men; to have worked successfully for the detection of the perpetrator of the crime and help secure a conviction; and to have then been part of the largest investigation ever of what went wrong in a miscarriage of justice, which resulted in the arrest of thirty-four people including twenty police officers involved in the original case, is a qualification unique to Satish Sekar. He is obviously a genius.”
Tim Gopsil (Editor of the Journalist)

“Cold case reviews need a complete fresh start, and consideration of all the information available.’Fitted in' provided a detailed summary and invaluable  alternative view of the Lynette White case which helped the re-investigation team challenge previous assumptions made in 1988-9. The various issues raised by Satish Sekar were, of necessity, considered in detail and explained by the physical evidence review which was part of the re-investigation which directly led to the conviction of Jeffrey Gafoor in 2003.”
Professor Dave Barclay (Former Head of Physical Evidence of the National Crime and Operations Faculty, Forensic Consultant, Senior lecturer Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and Hon Professor University of Hull)

“Satish Sekar’s book is a work of painstaking analysis and careful attention to detail. He leaves few stones unturned and spares no-one in the questions he poses... few who read this book will leave it without pondering on the many issues it raises. Sekar is to be congratulated upon producing a book which so thoroughly rehearses the facts of a most puzzling case.”
Gerard Elias QC (Leader of the Wales and Chester Circuit and Tony Paris’ lead barrister)

“This book should be read by all those people involved in the criminal justice system and above all by those who wish to see the restoration of total confidence in that system.”
Roger Backhouse QC (Yusef Abdullahi’s lead barrister)

“Satish Sekar’s meticulously researched book exposes incompetence, mismanagement and a shocking disregard for the law on the part of police officers investigating the horrific murder of Lynette White. Five years later similar incompetence and disgraceful behaviour characterised the police’s investigation in my case. In the light of these and other miscarriage of justice cases in South Wales it is difficult to conclude other than that elements of the South Wales Police are out of control and that senior management is unable or unwilling to put its house in order or even to acknowledge that a problem exists.

Through this book Satish Sekar has demonstrated overwhelmingly the need for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate policing in South Wales.”
Jonathan Jones (wrongly accused of two murders by South Wales Police)

“... illustrates to the fullest what the police are capable of.”
Billy Power (one of the Birmingham Six)

“Satish Sekar has written a clear and meticulously detailed account which will be read by all serious students of criminal justice.”
David Rose (former Home Affairs Correspondent of the Observer)

“Satish Sekar examines this case with exacting attention to detail and scrupulous fairness. His approach is to enlighten rather than to avenge.

There is a wealth of insight to be gained here: why vulnerable people wrongly incriminate themselves and others when frightened and pressurised, why forensic evidence can mislead as well as direct and how corruption, errors and legal absurdities compound to create injustices.