Hearing: 17th October - 1st November 2002
Judgement: 12th December 2002
15 years
since the last appeal I can’t believe how quickly time passes, but there were
so many things that happened back then.
I recall
receiving a fax at Whitemoor from the Parole Board dated 26th
October 2002 arranging for Brenda Large a Parole Board member to visit me for
an interview at 2pm on 4th October 2002. The fax went on to explain in detail about
the purpose of this interview with Brenda Large and of course I had always
known that this parole hearing would take place.
The 1994
letter from HQ dated 15th December 1994 Ref ADP/B 32307 supposedly
explaining my tariff of 25 years, although the Secretary of State stated:
“This seems to me to be a ‘whole life’ case.”
Because I
was sentenced prior to this tariff process the Secretary of State went on to
say:
“In your case the Parole Board review scheduled for September 2002
will go ahead.”
This was
because in 1986 the law stated that no life sentence prisoner should serve more
than 17 years in prison without a parole hearing. I had been given that in writing and told I
would have my first parole hearing at the 17 year point, then at 22 years, 25
years and every 3 years after that. But due to my appeal hearing my parole
hearing was delayed until January 2003, should it be necessary if my appeal
hearing was unsuccessful.
As we know I
didn’t win that 2002 appeal hearing due entirely to active non-disclosure of
evidence by Essex Police/Metropolitan Police.
More on that in a moment.
The Parole Board
chose not to hold a parole hearing and since 2002 I believe that the Parole
Board have held the hearings at the appropriate times but kept the findings
confidential.
The reason I
believe this to be true is that at each 3 year point when I would have had a
parole hearing I have a telephone conference or video conference with my local
Essex Probation Officer who asks all the questions about what I would do upon
release etc, etc. Of course my Probation
Officer is under the same “secret” order about my not being a “whole life
order” prisoner because it suits them for everyone including me to think I
am. But no other “whole life order”
prisoners have had parole hearings scheduled after 17 years or have local
probation officers who interview them every 3 years. It’s a wind up for me that
I can’t make proper representations for parole or challenge any decisions made.
Typical of
my case – it’s always secrets.
But in 2002
Essex Police and the Metropolitan Police were really close to being obligated
to come clean and admit that in 1985 Essex Police withheld information from the
Director of Public Prosecutions and my defence in order for me to be
prosecuted.
In 2002
there were many occasions when evidence came to be known about and appreciated
for what it was and its significance for my conviction ignored by the
Metropolitan Police who simply chose to suddenly stop investigating that line
of enquiry.
I have all
of the Action Reports from 2002 and of the 4 million case documents I have had 340,000 pages of case documents
from 1985 to date, they have now been catalogued and cross referenced and had
we known what we now know I would never have been charged with murder, never
prosecuted for murder, I would have won my first appeal in 1998, in 1991 my
City of London Police Enquiry outcome would have been successful, the C3
Enquiry Home Office referral to the Court of Appeal in 1993 would have
happened, the first CCRC application would have been successful in 1997/98, I
would have won my 2002 appeal hearing, I would have won my 2004 European Court
of Appeal hearing. The CCRC would have
sent my case back to the Court of Appeal on multiple issues between 2004 and
2012.
In truth had
any of this material been properly disclosed at any time over the last 32 years
I would never have remained in prison afterwards and certainly not since the
2002 appeal. So much has come to light
since 2002 and soon all that we know will come out and rightly so my conviction
should be over turned.
Jeremy
