From the outset, we cannot determine what pressure Dr Vincent Tabak was under whilst incarcerated, and what lead to him making the plea at The Old Bailey..
Prison by definition is not a holiday home... It's there as a punishment, and I am sure that remand prisoners do not get special treatment..
Prisons themselves use dirty tricks.. everyone who is of the opinion that people don't confess to something they haven't done are very much mistaken...
You then (IMO) have to be of the mindset that the prison enviroment is just peachy and all prisoners are treated fairly... you have to believe that every prison officer is honest to the eight degree and took on the role as master of the key, because he/she wants to protect the inmate and help them repent and re shape them into upstanding citizen's...
When in reality there some officers displaying some of the same traits as the people who are incarcerated... They will remove any bit of hope that the prisoner may have .. A small bit of light in their tunnel to take away the numbness of isolation, and wait for the next time that light may appear..
Depriving prisoner of their basic rights and using whatever reason seems legit to explain this or not bothering to explain... because unless you look for the horrors that prison life brings, you would never understand how it affects the mind psychologically... Just dangle the carrot and at the last possible moment remove it... And you remove the hope that goes with it...
Just today I found a tweet that shows the cruelty that is bestowed upon prisoners... Isn't incarceration enough without cruel punishments that psychologically damages people who are in prison who's mental health may not be sound to start with...
Loosing one's liberty was supposed to be punishment in itself and reforms were supposed to help prisoners adjust to the outside world on their release... But prisons themselves appear to teach hatred (IMO) by displaying cruelties to prisoners who have very little to hold on too....
called HMP Whitemoor & officer tells me prisoners locked in cells from 5pm to 9am over 4 days of Easter so can't call families
With liberties like the above being removed and hopes dashed, to me shows just how easy it would be to wear a person down to such a point they just want it all to go away, without really understanding the consequences of their actions...
You have to be of a strong mind to start with, if you are put in this enviroment and if you are not, then any pressure could make you say anything...
Dr Vincent Tabak had lost his father and Tanja had helped him through his PHD... she was his rock... he wasn't allowed to see her or any family for around 25 days .. and if he was fragile in that respect, it would be easy to add pressure one drip at a time....
It's a disgrace that there was never a psychological evaluation of Dr Vincent Tabak presented in court, which with him being placed on Suicide watch should in itself have raised huge questions...
And I'll say again a confession is only as good as the evidence to back it up.... And the evidence was poor.. The partial DNA sample which if the want us to believe Dr Vincent Tabak used the small gate could quite easily be transfer..
Who's to say Bernard the cat never jumped into the boot of Tanja Morsons car... transferring a spot of blood... Or samples were contaminated by LCG who had a poor track record on such things...there are always explantion when the evidence isn't strong.. And A good defence team could cast doubt...
Instead of passing the Prosecution another nail to be rammed into their clients coffin (IMO)...