Neil Sayers’ case was one of those that were not deemed worthy of further investigation because of the involvement of the disgraced forensic pathologist Dr Michael Heath. However, there are important causes for concern over Heath’s involvement in Sayers’ case that David Jessel’s review for the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) did not consider. In April 1999 Sayers was convicted with Graham Wallis of the May 1998 murder of his friend Russell Crookes. Wallis pleaded guilty, but blamed Sayers for the murder. Leading solicitor Steven Bird represents Sayers now and the CCRC informed him that the review of Heath’s cases had special regard for cases in which medical evidence was critical to the conviction. That did apply to Sayers’ case and Sayers’ previous application to the CCRC had only argued that there was no forensic evidence linking him to the crime itself. Consequently the CCRC thought that any challenge to Heath’s evidence in Sayers’ case would be incorrect.