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Barry George Not Guilty
- Thread starter Al Bion
- Start date
I know the evidence was thin on the ground but still find this suprising news, wonder who did kill her then
I think it was George Barry. This verdict does give further proof that the death penalty is totally unjustifiable.
This case is a very bad case for British justice. George should never have been convicted in the first place. To convict a jury need to find "beyond all reasonable doubt" that the accused comitted the murder. How the jury did this in the first place is beyond me. They convicted on the basis of a miniscule (probably smaller than the eye could see) speck of residue found in one of George's numerous jackets. There was nothing else to go on.
This should have gone to appeal much earlier.
This should have gone to appeal much earlier.
Tooting Gull
Well-known member
- Jul 5, 2003
- 11,033
There was a good thread on this a while back, and a fair few of us couldn't believe he had got convicted on basically no evidence. It was only circumstantial (ie he was a bit strange). The police were desperate, and the jury seem to have agreed that him being odd doesn't make him a murderer.
Loads of things about it were odd, not least that she was forced to kneel down outside her house and shot once in the head with a specially treated bullet. That is a professional hit, not the work of the local nutter.
Loads of things about it were odd, not least that she was forced to kneel down outside her house and shot once in the head with a specially treated bullet. That is a professional hit, not the work of the local nutter.
captainmorganrum
Wrexham
Sing along-a-Barry
"I've got off scott-free, I've got off scott-free"
"SCOTT-FREE"
"God know's how I got off scott-free"
"I've got off scott-free, I've got off scott-free"
"SCOTT-FREE"
"God know's how I got off scott-free"
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
I know the evidence was thin on the ground but still find this suprising news, wonder who did kill her then
Alice Beer.
(there is no evidence for this allegation whatsoever, it isn't true, and it is, in fact, a joke on this poster's part. Alice Beer didn't do it.)
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Bloody hell, I didn't know about that
*jumpstoconclusion*
Sounds like she pissed off one too many people on crime watch then.
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
I feel sorry for her fiance in all this. Alan Farthing was a good friend of mine when I was a teenager in Crowborough. Super guy but now he's left wondering what happened all over again. I never thought he'd grow up to be a gynaecologist though.
Totally agree. I can't really believe the original jury convicted. There is no doubt George is odd, but then again so are a lot of people and that doesn't make them murderers. Some of the eye witness reports of the incident actually contradict the way George looks.
The prosecution's orginal ace card in the first trial was this minscule residue of powder, that was ruled inadmissable in this trial. In this trial the prosecution had nothing to go on. No ballistic evidence, no eye witness evidence, no DNA evidence or motive for George. The only thing they could offer is the fact he was odd. That is not enough to convict beyond all reasonable doubt.
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its unjustifiable because of miscarriages of justice , its not TOTALLY unjustifiable.
captainmorganrum
Wrexham
Thank god, he can get back to his darts career again.
terrymendez
New member
This is the English legal systems cogs turning in a way which intrigues me.
He has been let off, but almost certainly did it - but has the right to be defended and let off if the evidence is not there to convict- the law enforcement agencies have to evolve with this news.
10 guilty walking the streets or one innocent banged up for life......i know which i would prefer....
He has been let off, but almost certainly did it - but has the right to be defended and let off if the evidence is not there to convict- the law enforcement agencies have to evolve with this news.
10 guilty walking the streets or one innocent banged up for life......i know which i would prefer....
Lawro's Lip
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Da Man Clay
T'Blades
- Dec 16, 2004
- 16,286
Interesting concept. Presume you would be happy to be that one innocent?
Da Man Clay
T'Blades
- Dec 16, 2004
- 16,286
I would say that is what makes its TOTALLY unjustifiable.
Bevendean Hillbilly
New member
The fact that someone manages to shoot her in broad daylight with no witnesses or evidence whatsoever being found would support the professional hit theory.
Barry George, although admittedly diddlo, is not a top assassin
Barry George, although admittedly diddlo, is not a top assassin
Lady Bracknell
Handbag at Dawn
Funny looking bloke. Clearly a killer of TV personalities.
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or not, as it turns out.
terrymendez
New member
Well no.....I have deep faith in the system.
Bevendean Hillbilly
New member
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
Wasn't part of the circumstantial evidence from some biddy who saw someone looking like him cruising past or three point turning a car earlier in the day, just outside Dando's house?
Turns put the guy can't even drive. Pretty certain I saw/read that somewhere.
Does look like he was tucked up like a kipper because he was a bit strange. Didn't used to post on here did he?
Turns put the guy can't even drive. Pretty certain I saw/read that somewhere.
Does look like he was tucked up like a kipper because he was a bit strange. Didn't used to post on here did he?