Levi Bellfield is one of the most odious inmates in Britain’s prisons as well as one of the most dangerous. In 2003 and 2004 he murdered two young women in South London, hitting them over the head with a hammer just because. Also in 2004 he ran down teenager Kate Sheedy in a heavy estate […]
Convicted triple killer Levi Bellfield, or Yusuf Rahim as he now has the temerity to call himself, is to face further charges, including murder. There has been talk about this for some considerable time, but on April 16, it was confirmed by information from an unimpeachable source. In February 2008, Bellfield was convicted of the […]
Snitch culture is an Americanism. It can have several different meanings, but arguably its most toxic form is that of manufacturing confessions against men suspected of serious crimes, up to and including murder. Usually, they involve what are called cell confessions; a man held on remand facing a murder charge to which he is pleading […]
Miscarriages of justice are far more common than is generally believed, even with due process and strict rules about the admissibility of evidence. They also affect some of the most unlikely people.
Michael Stone is Britain’s longest serving miscarriage of justice prisoner. (He is not to be confused with the convicted multiple murderer Michael Stone from Northern Ireland).
Michael Stone is a fairly common name, so common in fact that there are two people so named serving life sentences in the UK alone. One is a “Loyalist” terrorist who murdered six people. Forget about him, he’s a nutter. The other is the man convicted of the 1996 Chillenden Murders on the most ludicrous “evidence” presented in an English courtroom since the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612.
