With hindsight, and as always - imo - I can see the appeal for guilty prisoners maintaining innocence to choose people like the Sandra Leans and the Billy Middleton's.
According to this article
https://medium.com/better-marketing/7-brutal-life-lessons-everyone-has-to-learn-multiple-times-6e0eb0c7c0f4 there are “
7 Brutal Life Lessons Everyone Has to Learn Multiple Times”It claims:
Self-Knowledge Is Worth More Than Personal Achievement“
Such a difficult lesson, and one that must be practiced diligently throughout the entirety of one’s life: the difference between contentment and achievement.
You can immediately tell when you meet someone which category they fall into. They either emit a genuine confidence to pursue their goals for self-exploration, or they emit an ego-based confidence rooted in personal achievement. I’m not telling you to not set goals and achieve them. I’m asking you to be aware of where your sense of self-worth comes from.
If you pursue things in the name of personal achievement, you will never be fulfilled — and I say this from experience. True fulfillment is calm, and motivated only by creative freedom — a desire to further understand yourself and your craft. Personal achievement is fleeting. And so, in order to both “achieve” externally and find a sense of fulfillment and happiness, you have to keep a close eye on which is which.
Otherwise, do you know what’s going to happen? I learned in 2013 I had been conned by Simon Hall, and indeed others. The others included academics. Not all academics but many within the MOJ movement and especially the ones I came into contact with. - Some of whom do not appear to have learned a whole lot since they too were conned.
Sandra Lean has recently made a conscious decision to publicly claim in relation to MOJO Scotland and the Luke Mitchell case:
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The idea of having the Luke Mitchell case, this huge case on their books, was good publicity for them." A psychological projection maybe?
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I was going to say it's a disaster but if they're not doing the work, they're giving false hope to people and that, in the circumstances these people are in, that it shocking, that is dreadful.” (Would have underlined that twice if I could)
Full article can be read here:
https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1439054-miscarriages-of-justice-charity-stripped-of-lottery-funding/Will be interesting to see how things pan out over the next few weeks and months and to learn where the
false hope(s) lies.
false hopesnoun [ plural ] UK /ˌfɒls ˈhəʊps/ US /ˌfɑːls ˈhoʊps/
confident feelings about something that might not be true: