UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧
Off Topic and General Discussions => Off topic, general discussions and the Wide Awake Club. => Topic started by: DanniCash on March 21, 2022, 01:41:21 PM
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The Freshwater Five claim they were wrongly convicted of drug smuggling after going fishing off the Isle of Wight. Their appeals have been rejected. They seem pretty likely to be guilty IMO, although the Court of Appeal agreed that two police officers "embellished" their evidence to make them seem more guilty.
"Appeal" report on the Court of Appeal decision here: https://appeal.org.uk/news/2021/3/25/deeply-troubling-court-of-appeal-decision-upholds-freshwater-fives-convictions-despite-evidence-disclosure-failure
The Guardian did a podcast on the case: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/feb/19/the-freshwater-five-part-1-are-the-wrong-men-in-jail-podcast
Court of Appeal ruling: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-beer-payne-freshwater-five/