It is a well trodden story that it can take many years to overturn a wrongful conviction and when such convictions are linked to notoriaty or politics the task can be even…
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CRYSTAL HUNNISETT (formerly known as David Andrew Hunnisett [2021] EWCA Crim 265 – CCRC Referral Psychiatric Evidence was not fresh and was flawed
In this CCRC Referral the Court was asked to adjudicate on fresh evidence from a psychiatrist altering a previous opinion that the applicant was suffering from a diminishment at the appropriate time…
R. v Mohammed (Ahmed)[2021] EWCA Crim 201- CCRC Referral Fresh Evidence DNA Phone
In this CCRC referral fresh evidence was adduced with regard to a mobile phone leading to the conviction being quashed . The applicant had been convicted on the basis of a partially…
R v Gordon Park [2020] EWCA Crim 589 – weight of circumstantial evidence and the Jury Impact Test
A CCRC Referral failed where the original case shifted by the time of the appeal with a DNA ground abandoned and the Court concluded that the weight of circumstantial evidence was not…
Regina v Sterling Christie, Winston Trew, George Griffiths [2019] EWCA Crim 2474 – police misconduct
In this CCRC Referral which followed the case of R v Stephen Simmons [2018] EWCA Crim 114 , these 1972 convictions were quashed on the basis that these were convictions arising out…