“Exploitation and objectification’ are also typical narcissistic traits
Empowering the Innocent (ETI)
@EmpowerInnocent
On International Women’s Day, I just want to say thank you to all the wives, partners, mothers, daughters, sisters and female friends who fight tirelessly for justice for wrongly accused, convicted &/or incarcerated innocent men & boys. Keep up the amazing and inspirational work.
10:13 am · 8 Mar 2020·Twitter for iPhone
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmpowerInnocent/status/1236595846063546369
Have not read Kevin Callans autobiography but according to this news article
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tragedy-of-wrongly-jailed-dad-1156386‘eight years after he cleared his name and was released from prison he has drunk himself to death‘The above case is one of ‘
a sample’ Dr Michael Naughton referred to in 2003 as
‘crimes that never happened’ in an article headed ‘
Convicted for crimes that never happened’ with the byline,
‘
Following last week's Annual Miscarriage of Justice Day Michael Naughton finds a new category of perverse jury verdicts where the innocent face jail for crimes which never occurred’Full article here
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/oct/19/prisonsandprobation.ukcrime(Report from the annual MOJ day here
http://www.fitting-up.org.uk/mojday2report.htm)
Dr Naughton also cites the case of Jong Rhee. Jong Rhee was deported in 2015 to South Korea. According to a news article by David Powell,
‘he was escorted from HMP Gartree, a category B prison in Leicestershire, and flown back to his native country’
‘But a forensic expert alleged that there were flaws in the fire investigation and that Natalie, 25, died accidentally from smoke inhalation, according to reports in magazine Private Eye.
The expert, Dr Roger Berrett, of Forensic Access, alleged that another expert - an electrical engineer who is now dead - "leaned over backwards" to support the prosecution case, it states in the magazine's "Miscarriage of Justice" section.
While North Wales Police couldn't comment on the deportation, the Criminal Cases Review Commission said it had looked at Rhee's conviction repeatedly.
A CCRC spokesman said: "The commission has considered Mr Rhee's 1998 murder conviction on three separate occasions in 2000, 2004 and 2010.
"In spite of having looked into the case in great detail the commission has been unable to identify grounds upon which to refer Mr Rhee's conviction back the Court of Appeal.
"The commission has supplied detailed reasons for its decision in relation to each review in a document called a statement of reasons.https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-who-killed-wife-house-5943452(Bob Woffinden published an article on the Rhee case here
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/may/04/law.theguardian here
http://www.mojuk.org.uk/'Inside%20Out'/615.pdf under the header, ‘And An Expert Who Was No Expert At All’ & its one of a list of cases he wrote about in his book ‘the Nicholas cases’
https://insidetime.org/the-nicholas-cases-casualties-of-justice/)
Dr Michael Naughton states here
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/oct/19/prisonsandprobation.ukcrime”Such cases continue to question the reliability of convictions based solely on expert forensic science evidence.
To make sense of convictions for crimes that never occurred, you need to consider the current climate of criminal justice in England and Wales.But what if the crimes did occur?
Campbell Malone published an article in 2012 called,
‘Where lies the truth in criminal defence cases?’of the Callan case he stated, ‘
They should perhaps turn to "Where Lies the Truth" by Michael O'Connell (Country Books), a considered analysis of two alarming cases in the United Kingdom. I should perhaps declare an interest in that the author, in his introduction, makes some very kind remarks about me relating to my client, the late Kevin Callan. Mr O'Connell makes the point that had capital punishment been in force when Kevin was convicted of a child murder it is more than likely that he would have been hung. As his book goes on to explore, it is of little comfort to be exonerated in the Court of Appeal posthumously. https://www.stephensons.co.uk/site/news_and_events/uptodatenews/where_lies_the_truthKevin Callan’s murder conviction was overturned in April 1995 he died in 2003
Heather Mills 1995 article in the Independent here
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/inmate-studied-his-way-to-freedom-1614515.html claimed Kevin Callan
“had been convicted largely on the evidence of Dr Geoffrey Garrett”Heather Mills also wrote about the Simon Hall case for Private Eye Magazine.
In a reproduced article here
https://innocent.org.uk/2015/12/16/michael-brown/ by Sean O’Neill for the organisation INNOCENT, who have been challenging ‘miscarriages of justice’ since 1993 claimed,
‘
A lorry driver who proved that he was innocent of a child’s murder by studying neurology in his prison cell was freed by the Appeal Court yesterday’But Kevin Callan never proved he was ‘innocent’ and it’s disingenuous to suggest otherwise. Kevin Callans murder conviction was deemed ‘unsafe’ and ‘unsatisfactory’.
the article goes on,
“Mr Michael Mansfield, QC, for Mr Callan, said none of the expert witnesses at the original trial had expertise in neuropathology. He pointed out that the Appeal Court had initially refused Mr Callan a hearing because it said he was conducting “a trawl for experts”.
“Had it not been for the persistence of the applicant and his solicitor, at a later stage, this matter would not have taken this course,” Mr Mansfield said.
“Here is a cautionary tale for lawyers and the courts themselves to ensure that the expertise proffered to the jury is the proper one.”
Mr Campbell Malone, Mr Callan’s solicitor, said after the hearing that his client would seek compensation under the Home Office scheme for victims of miscarriage of justice.”In another article by INNOCENT here
https://innocent.org.uk/2016/02/03/obituary-kevin-john-callan-1958-2003/ interestingly the author states the Kevin Callan case
’caught the public imagination’and
’In a foreword to the book, Michael Mansfield wrote:
“Kevin’s testament is also a monument. Before it is too late, let there be no more names inscribed in the hall of judicial infamy’, and he looked forward to the establishment of a national Forensic Science Institute, a properly financed and provisioned independent scientific facility. Of course, nothing has changed.But what if it was all an illusion?
INNOCENT stated, ‘
Amanda died on 15 April 1991, and Kevin was arrested the next day. Ignoring his protestations that he could not have harmed Amanda, the police constructed a case against him, even finding someone who claimed he had overheard Kevin in a police cell admit to shaking her.
‘Before he was released, Kevin’s sister Janice Davies, the most indefatigable of his supporters, helped to set up the organisation INNOCENT, to support Kevin and other wrongly convicted prisoners and their families. INNOCENT continues to flourish. A comment at the foot of the article, by a Keith Callan claims,
’The Manchester evening news slaughtered Kevin!!!!!INNOCENT was apparently founded at a meeting in Manchester Town Hall on 14 June 1993
https://innocent.org.uk/about/Heather Mills stated in her 1995 article,
”A truck driver who spent every spare moment of his prison life studying the human brain to prove he had not killed his girlfriend's disabled child, walked free yesterday after the Court of Appeal cleared him of murder.
“Kevin Callan has spent the past four years in jail, convicted of shaking four-year-old Amanda Allman to death. In fact her fatal brain injuries were caused by falls - she suffered severe cerebral palsy.
“Formally clearing Mr Callan, Lord Justice Swinton Thomas, paid tribute to him and his solicitor, Campbell Malone, for their "tireless" research.She went on to state, “
Michael Mansfield QC, for Mr Callan, said that based on the pathologist's evidence, police arrested Mr Callan and subjected him to forceful and severe questioning. He said it was a "sad reflection" it took Mr Callan himself to seek out the expert witnesses who got to the truth, and "salutary".In a 1996 essay called, ‘
Systemic Injustice’ referring to the Callan case Michael Mansfield QC made claim,
“
Once again the system had failed to discern the injustice. The injustice was the inability to identify the right issues and the right expertise. What is even more worrying is that after Kevin Callan was convicted, the single judge originally refused leave to appeal, as well as legal aid, on the basis that this was a second bite of the same cherry. http://banmarchive.org.uk/collections/soundings/02_135.pdfBut what if the ‘
injustice’ was that Dr Garrett had been wrongly ‘marked as a pariah’ and was right all along?
The pathologist, Dr Geoffrey Garrett along with crime reporter Andrew Nott, wrote the book
‘Cause of Death: Memoirs of a home office pathologist’ He described how ‘
on the afternoon of Tuesday, 16 April 1991” he was ‘
called to the mortuary at Tameside hospital, Ashton-Upon-Lyne, and shown the body of a four-year-old girl.’
Dr Garrett concludes,
‘It would surely be difficult for a man who had killed a child to return to that youngster’s mother as a loving companion. It would take a person of remarkable callousness to act the innocent every hour of every day while looking into the eyes of a mother robbed by him of a lovely, though oh-so-vulnerable daughter. How could any remotely normal human being live with such a terrible burden?
By the same token, mothers have remarkable instincts when it comes to their offspring. The bond is so close as to sometimes appear almost supernatural. You would think that in such a situation one would be able to tell. Surely she would know!
Perhaps that also adds to the case for the defence. (According to Kevin Callan's account he was‘rejected by Mandy's mother’ )https://laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=15575
For his sake I hope Kevin John Callan’s conscience is clear.
Mine it.’Worth reading the excerpts found here
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yhieBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT125&lpg=PT125&dq=amanda+allman+death+head+injury&source=bl&ots=ub1N8DFrkl&sig=ACfU3U2Icvq1X4ftxPhRSAXAVleApf2OTw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiW4rDk79roAhVBZMAKHR1kAskQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=amanda%20allman%20death%20head%20injury&f=false Unfortunately Dr Geoffrey Garrett’s opening statements (At top of excerpt) have been cut short and all that can be read are,
“....... me within the forensic-pathology community. It was a statement that marked me as a pariah. It was also untrue.
Here if the proof.....”
