I wanted to write a short
piece about all the work that has been done since January, to resolve matters
regarding my wrongful imprisonment, both in proving my innocence and in proving
that Sheila took her own life after killing our family.
We now have all the raw
data that’s key to resolving every aspect of the case, facts and figures
extracted from three and a half million pages of case documents. When Mr Ewen
Smith acted as my lawyer at Glaisyers Solicitors, he stated that ‘A
conservative estimate puts the number of pieces of paper [in the case files] at
some four million.'[1]
To give some sense to just how much paperwork that is – if you read five
hundred pages of case documents every single day, 365 days a year it would take
nineteen years and four months just to read through the case papers once, so
who knows how long it would take to actually analyse them all properly, many
lifetimes I should imagine.
All the case documents
have been scanned and saved as PDF’s which means that a computer can search
every piece of paper, all 3.5 million pages in minutes – thanks to OCR and
indexing – a computer would struggle to read badly photocopied handwritten
material and this had had to be searched manually but a 3.5 million piece
jigsaw puzzle has now been completed.
Forensic reports, expert
analysis, fresh witness testimony and hundreds of hours of legal evaluation has
gone into all the new revelations that have now come to light. It would be
fantastic to share all of this material with the public but there is still
further work to be done before the submissions can be made proving that my
conviction is unsustainable. It can now be shown that Essex police withheld the
proof of my innocence from the Defence, the Jury and the Crown Prosecution
Service at my trial in 1986.
We know that certain key police
officers and central witnesses for the crown perjured themselves at my trial,
and when combined with the evidence from the scene that Essex police buried
from sight hidden amongst millions of documents, it is no wonder that the jury
eventually convicted me after much debate with a 10:2 majority.
So the news is
really, really good and I’m sorry that I cannot even hint about all the
discoveries that have been made. Nevertheless, there is interesting
supplementary material which will not be included in the submissions that is to
be put onto my web site in the coming weeks. This includes new information on
the sound moderator and other material exhibits which remain undisclosed.
After almost 28 years of
fighting for justice the law is about to catch up with the true criminals who
fabricated evidence to aid my conviction. The wheels of justice turn slowly so
please don’t worry about my freedom, because it is as sure as the dawn coming
every day. My case is the thorn in the side of the authorities and the developments
will be music to the ears of many, and fulfil the worst fears of those who
committed crimes to aid my conviction.
Look out for other new
material on official outlets, there are some updates on the site planned, new
Case QT's, and I have been writing an article on legal aid and it's impact on
whole life tariff prisoners.
Times have been turbulent
for the criminal justice system generally and I really appreciate all of your
letters and emails of concern recently it is good to know that people really do
care about what happens to those people wrongly convicted and that injustice is
not just buried under a political smokescreen.
Jeremy
Note: If you write to Jeremy please enclose a
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please send stamps/envelopes for Jeremy to respond as prisoners earn less money in a week than most of us do in less than
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Jeremy's daily wage. Contact with the outside is his lifeline so please help
him maintain your friendship with a simple S.A.E.
[1] Letter dated 19th April 2000
to HM Prisons Head Office from Glaisyers Solicitors Ref EMS/LA
B0752 -15
