Barlow still guilty

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 12:00 am

NZPA report:

Convicted double murderer John Barlow has lost his final bid to have his convictions overturned, as the Privy Council in London ruled against his appeal today. The five law lords that heard Barlow’s appeal tonight announced that while he had an arguable case, on the evidence he was properly convicted by the jury.

“The Board accordingly concludes…that, while the introduction of the misleading evidence…was indeed a miscarriage, no substantial miscarriage of justice actually occured,” the judgement said.

In other words, there was lots of other evidence.

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Bain loses bid for acquittal

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 at 7:47 am

The Privy Council has rejected a bid by David Bain to have im acquitted of the murders of his family, without a trial.

Good. The case deserves a trial to resolve it.

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