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Sorry but I'm with Merry Prankster on this. I don't think a fair trial was possible. If you can't accept that 'reasonable' people can have that opinion then there's not much more to debate.

I don't buy that at all. No-one would have dared nobble this jury. Imagine the fear of NOT convicting, more like.

There was although I have a little inside knowledge of this as a friend was working as legal counsel for the IPCC at the time and in her words it was 'the most perfunctory of cases she has ever worked on". The relationships that Clifford Norris enjoyed with several police officers was, in her...

Uh-uh. Nope. David Norris's dad, Clifford, was paying police officers to obstruct the case. Neil Putnam, an ex-cop told Panorama this back in 2000 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | Archive | The Bent Cop December 3 2000 EDIT- a better link Lawrence: Did detective tip off suspects family? -...

My thoughts too. I'd also agree that this opens up a huge can of worms in the way that justice is done in future and it does deflect hugely away from the reason why Norris et al got away with it the first time - the police were in part bent and other part incompetent. I'm no lawyer but I really...

You're not listening to what people are saying.

Let's look at the bigger picture. The 2 blokes sent down are career toe-rags. They were destined to have a life of crime. They attacked Stephen Lawrence and killed him and should have been banged up for it. Of course their families are going to lie - they are career criminal families. The only...

I know nothing of this 'Rapper' case you mention but the Damilola Taylor second trial was on a lesser charge of manslaughter so is different from the Lawrence case. Also, the Taylor trial didn't have the main suspects' names and faces splashed across tabloid newspapers with the newspaper...

You can't convict people on previous sentences let alone previous arrests. I don't mean to be rude but you don't seem to understand how courts work.

And that is relevant, how?

It was mildly funny the first time unfortunately the law of diminishing returns has kicked in big time.

Well, that's one way to twist what has been argued by (amongst others) me.

Got to say I agree completely with Bushy and Billy the Fish that this is a very sad day for British Justice. Just to clarify, of course I think those 2 blokes were involved and I'm glad they are finally banged up but British Justice has been bent backwards to accommodate this very political...