If someone kills a person then I am all for locking him up and throwing away the key.
Peter Sullivan has spent 39 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a young barmaid and then killing her.
Fair enough, except that he didn’t do it.
DNA evidence which wasn’t avaliable at the time of his conviction has proved that he could not have done it.
Here’s the problem.
How many rapists and murderers did Peter Sullivan see come into prison, serve their entire sentence and then get released?
39 fucking years for his crime when other people who were actually guilty of similar offences have been given far less.
How many decades has DNA evidence been available which could have got him released?
I know that there have been advances in the way that DNA can be examined but while this innocent man has spent most of his life locked up, the legal appeal system have been dragging their feet.
39 years.
He now says that he doesn’t feel bitter about it.
A classic case of Stockholm Syndrome.
This poor man is now in his late 60’s and has lost his life.
He will never be able to rehabilitate into normal society.
Being out of prison and without the regular routine he will not be able to cope.
Simple things like having some money in his pocket and carrying a set of keys are totally alien to him.
Even being able to wear a belt will be something that will confuse him.
Whatever compensation that he will be paid is irrelevant.
He will not know how to spend it anyway.
Justice only works if it is applied to everyone equally.
Nominated by: The Artful Cunter
Lord Justice Holroyde is one of the judges who rejected Lucy Connolly’s appeal against her conviction. The same judge reduced the term of imprisonment on appeal for Labour peer Lord Ahmed for sexual crimes against children.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/24/judge-lucy-connolly-appeal-sentence-paedophile-labour-peer/
It is often said that the Law is an ass.
No it isn’t, it’s a Two Tiered Cunt.
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Thanks for letting that through Admin.
I suppose it was the DT’s use of the word pea-dough-file that got it moderated.
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now there is a reason for the sentence length, to be released you must show remorse and admit the offence.
Fact is a lot of prisoners are in prison for a crime they did not commit, when I say that it is because they have pleaded guilty to a lesser offence or been found guilty of the lesser offence because of ease of process.
So you get bang up and you definitely did not do it, you have the hands up option, be a model prisoner and get out early, and if by chance they do nab the right person you have no right to compensation because you mislead the authorities by admitting guilt.
The fuck off I did not do it option denies you eligibility for parole, and any psychiatric tests will brand you as manipulative and deceptive as you are not ticking the boxes of your “Profile”.
So yes it is a fucking mine field.
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Psychiatric tests? Better off making a brew and reading the tea leaves. Cheaper and more reliable. Anyone whose occupation begins with the prefix “psych” is a charlatan. A truly appalling case and I’ve no doubt that with the rate of advance in DNA techniques it could have been resolved significantly sooner.
That leads us on to another problem, the glacial pace at which the law operates. We should not be surprised by this fact. It is in the interest of the lawyers to spin every case out, it’s how they make lots of money. Lawyers are vastly over-represented amongst MPs i.e. the law makers. Thus like EU bureaucrats enacting ‘elf and safety regulations they write their own jobs.
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The tests are fun, likewise the leading conversations that they have.
Likewise the reports afterwards, because if you don’t fit the profile you are actually more dangerous because you are a manipulative individual so to be treated with caution.
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He’s lucky the cunts didn’t make him pay for 38 years board & lodging.
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They probably will “adjust” any compensation to cover his board&lodging, and he won’t be the first wrongly-convicted person to have the privilege of paying for their enforced stay.
It’s wrong, in so many ways.
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Quite so – it’s wrong on every count.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66324801
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What actual evidence convicted him in the first place, was there any or was it just the case of we got someone so case closed.
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The police love a halfwit, like Timothy Evans, for example. Or loners like Barry George. They will confess under extreame mental bullying, even though the’re innocent. Someone convicted, job done. “Bring out all the usual suspects.”
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Standard police procedure when investigating a particularly heinous crime is to nick the local billy-no-mates and fit him up for a jacket he most definitely doesn’t want. See also Stefan Kiszko and Colin Stagg.
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There is no such thing as legal “justice”,particularly with regard to serious offences.
Convicted murderers,terrorists and other rank filth are afforded privileges and comfort.
The poor cunts who have a family member killed by a depraved lunatic or foreign terrorist have to believe that justice will be served,that the “system” will put things aright.
It fucking doesn’t.
The whole thing needs demolishing,all the shithouse lawyers,judges,parole boards the whole mess needs utterly removing..the Gravy Train laughs at the victims of crime.
Make the punishment fit the crime and if there is a miscarriage of justice then strip everyone involved in the conviction of their pension “rights”,make the cunts hurt.
What a despicable pantomime.
Oven.
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Peter could live with knowing he was innocent. That’s what kept him sane.
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I much prefer to have a running commentary on the everyday sufferings of genuine convicted criminals. The more evil the better.
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If the truth were known, the authorities probably knew his conviction was unsafe for years, or maybe from the beginning.
Because there’s one thing the judiciary and old bill cannot stand.
Having to admit they were wrong.
At the first sign of trouble, they make sure the wheels of the judiciary machine turn as slowly as possible.
Look at the Letby case.
Whatever your views, the whole shebang is so full of contradictions and opposing ‘expert’ opinions, that it can’t be denied she at least deserves a retrial.
Yet it’ll be a fucking long time coming, if it ever does.
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Her mistake was not being negro or an Asian woman. Two Tier would have had her out by now, assuming she ever went in.
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The main argument for making Letby rot in jail seems to be that the “authorities” do not want to upset the relatives of the victims by raking it over again. FFS, our judicial system is run by mongs.
Good morning, everyone.
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And that’s another thing, Twenty.
The parents have my sympathy for their loss.
But to consider any conviction, regardless of evidence, a result, isn’t justice.
Can any of them honestly say they can sleep easier than before, that they’ve got real ‘closure’?
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That loony looking Southport killer seems to be happy in prison, despite seriously injuring a warden a few weeks ago in one of his hissy fits:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/axel-rudakubana-allowed-to-buy-maltesers-and-crisps-in-prison-b1230584.html
Not that many years ago, he might have been having his treats on his final day in then condemned cell.
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Isn’t eating malteasers, cannibalism to that melon headed savage.
That cunt should be eating though a straw for the rest of his life.
Everytime his jaw heals break it again.
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He admitted the crime and then withdrew his admission. It would be interesting to find out the circumstances his admission was obtained under.
https://evidencebasedjustice.exeter.ac.uk/case/peter-sullivan/
The system certainly failed in this case but did it fail because of circumstances or did it fail because it was manipulated to get the desired result?
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He he had learning difficulties. Not the first person lent on by plod who wasn’t the full shiliing and made to admit something they didn’t do. Failing that there was always verballing – a fake confession written by plod. Quite common practice in the 1970s I believe.
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“I am not angry, I am not bitter”?
Well I fucking would be.
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I wouldn’t worry, it’ll be replaced by Muslamic Clerics practicing Sharia law in the next few years.
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