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Sounds like there is a very strong case to say this guy was innocent and his charge on murder was a stitch up job instigated by (primarily) West Yorkshire Police.
Great journalism by Mark Daly.
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stitch up...yorkshire polis...fuck me are the coppers in that part oh the world the most bent on the planet
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In May 2003, Norris was questioned in connection with four other patients: Vera Wilby, aged 90; Bridget Bourke, aged 89; Doris Ludlam, aged 80; and Irene Crooks, aged 78. It was not until October 2005 that he was charged with four murders and one attempted murder.Much of the trial was devoted to testimony from medical and scientific experts, with the prosecution suggesting that the hypoglycaemia was only explicable by injections of insulin. The defence, however, argued that there was no evidence of unlawful injections in four of the five cases and challenged the lab results in the fifth case. Norris was convicted on an 11-1 majority in March 2008 and told he must serve a minimum of 30 years.The findings were challenged in a 2011 film, A Jury in the Dark, made by former Rough Justice producer Louise Shorter and journalist Mark Daly. The film claimed there were logical, non-criminal explanations for all the deaths.Professor Vincent Marks, a leading expert on insulin poisoning, who prepared a report for Norris's lawyer, Jeremy Moore, has concluded that, far from being extremely rare, spontaneous hypoglycaemia among non-diabetic elderly patients is relatively common. Substantial new evidence is being launched this week in a booklet published by Inside Justice, an organisation that examines potential miscarriages of justice, and associated with the prison newspaper, Inside Time.The new evidence comes from the geriatric medicine department at Rotherham general hospital and the Beds & Herts postgraduate medical school, which has published a review that concludes that "hypoglycaemia is not uncommon in hospitalised non-diabetic older people" with other serious conditions.The study contradicts expert evidence at Norris's trial that non-diabetic hypoglycaemia was "vanishingly rare". The booklet also raises numerous anomalies relating to a blood test on a sample taken from Hall that led to the initial police investigation."The crown's entire case against Colin was based on the assumption that low blood sugar among non-diabetics is – to quote one prosecution expert – 'vanishingly rare'," said Paul May, of the Free Colin Norris campaign. "This has now been shown to be a fallacy."
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Yorkshire polis.....
Lying. Dirty. Cover up. Cheats.
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Mark Daly is famed for great investigative reporting.
Edit, the judicial system and Norris's defence are just as culpable as any polis.
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