Never to late for justice in the UK fortunately....Montclair told us that he has never heard of a successful challenge resulting in a miscarriage of justice in Portugal...what does that tell us. In the Uk however people are free to challenge and may be successful...there are a further two points....
Barry George has not been declared innocent ...in his appeal although the judge quashed the verdict because of disputed forensic he stated that even without this George may still have been found guilty. George has already served a prison sentence for a sex crime.
Secondly...every professional makes mistakes. if a mistake WAS made here it would be grossly unfair to use this against an individual without looking at all the cases the individual has been involved in
Problem is a whole series of 'mistakes' were made in George's prosecution.
Definitely wasn't English justice's finest hour.
And "declared innocent" or not Barry would have got his compensation but for the Labour government changing the law.
Prior convictions were not admissible at the time of this first trial. But the government also changed that law in time for the second trial.
Do you support those changes?
