Over and over again we see the corrupt police officers and Prosecutors get away with serious crimes whilst they happily set-up innocent people for political motives or just to cover up their own crimes and those of their political masters. The Ratcliff persecution cost us one million pounds with the result that 20 innocent men and women were jailed because Felicity Gerry the Prosecution Barrister withheld vital evidence from the Defence, the Court and the Jury.
We have seen it in Hillsborough where the police caused the deaths of 96 and injured 766, concealed what happened, lied to the press and denigrated the victims to hide their own culpability. So far no-one has been brought to justice for the simple reason they are police officers and members of the corrupt UK Court system.
We have seen it in deliberately botched investigations like the three North Wales Police investigations into child abuse in North Wales. The New Inquiry under Keith Bristow of the National Crime Agency into the original investigating and into the actual abuse is ignoring evidence from anyone who might actually have evidence against the Police but accepting only evidence from Victims whom they believe they can manipulate.
The persecuted Ratcliff-on Soar Power Station activists have produced a PDF of the trail where 20 activists were prosecuted by the infamous corrupt barrister Felicity Gerry. Read more the full trail script http://nottingham.indymedia.org/system/file_upload/2011/01/08/72/ratcliffe_crown_court_case__nov_2010__no_names.pdf
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Felicity Gerry who withheld tapes from the Defence, which would have prevented the 20 Ratcliff power station political activists from being convicted, escaped justice when last year a Court ruled that there will be no prosecutions of the Prosecution or Police Officers. The Court Protected its own Corrupt System.
Gerry following her victory in convicting innocent activists went on to have Andrea Davison child abuse investigator and intelligence agent jailed for 2 and half years for an alleged fraud where no-one lost any money at all. During the 90's Andrea had been at the forefront of giving Britain's abused children a voice when she exposed the extent of the sexual abuse of children in North Wales forcing the authorities to admit child abuse did happen.
The Guardian report that :- Ratcliffe-on-Soar activists are furious as no disciplinary charges brought over withheld tapes Recordings made by police spy Mark Kennedy were crucial to case but hidden from environmental protesters' defence
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The activists were wrongfully convicted of attempting to break into the power station in Ratcliffe-on-Soar.
No prosecutors or police officers are to be disciplined over a miscarriage of justice in which environmental activists were wrongly convicted of plotting to break into a power station. read Police Complains report http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/apr/uk-ippc-final-operation-aeroscope-report-march-12.pdf
The only prosecutor who was subject to a disciplinary inquiry over the failure to disclose secret surveillance tapes recorded by police spy Mark Kennedy has convieniently retired from the Crown Prosecution Service, it has emerged. His retirement last month brings the inquiry to an end.
The development follows the verdict by the police watchdog that no police officers were guilty of misconduct over the controversy. The Independent Police Complaints Commission had criticised police officers for "collective failings" for withholding the Kennedy tapes from lawyers representing the activists.
This and another official inquiry had blamed both senior prosecutors and police officers for withholding the tapes, which were crucial to the activists' defence.
While working as an undercover policeman, Kennedy had covertly recorded a private meeting of environmentalists while they discussed breaking into Ratcliffe-on-Soar, one of Britain's biggest power stations, in 2009.
The convictions of 20 environmentalists were quashed last year after three appeal court judges ruled that the contents of the tapes were vital to their defence. Judges ruled that the activists had been convicted "following a trial in which elementary principles which underpin the fairness of our trial processes were ignored".
The withholding of the tapes also forced prosecutors to abandon a trial of another six activists last year.
On Thursday, a spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed that Cunningham, the senior lawyer in charge of the prosecution, had "retired from the CPS while the disciplinary process was ongoing. He was 60 in January".
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Last December, an inquiry by Sir Christopher Rose, a retired high court judge, ruled that the secret tapes had not been revealed to the activists' lawyers because of "failures, over many months and at more than one level, by the police and the CPS".
Rose said Cunningham had to bear "primary responsibility" for the failure to hand over the tapes. Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, ordered a disciplinary inquiry into his conduct.
On Thursday, Danny Chivers, one of the activists whose prosecution was abandoned, said: "Given there was an unambiguous miscarriage of justice involving 20 people, and a £1m second collapsed trial, it is astonishing that nobody is to be held to account."
"I was lucky, in the months before my trial Mark Kennedy was discovered as an undercover police officer. If Kennedy had remained a state secret, critical evidence would have been withheld from my trial and I could have been the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
"The number of people who were not as lucky as me is unknown, which is why a public inquiry is needed to expose the murky world of suppressing evidence from the courts to public scrutiny."
Last summer, the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, and two other judges, overturned the convictions of the 20 environmentalists as they were "unsafe because of significant non-disclosure" of the secret tapes.
"It is clear that there was a non-disclosure of material which would have
Last summer, the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, and two other judges, overturned the convictions of the 20 environmentalists as they were "unsafe because of significant non-disclosure" of the secret tapes.
"It is clear that there was a non-disclosure of material which would have been supportive of the defence case advanced at trial," said Lord Judge. Original article http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/05/ratcliffe-no-charges-withheld-tapes
Felicity Gerry and her kind must be exposed and a public inquiry is essential into the extent the Crown Prosecution Service are used to persecute people for political or self serving reasons and to expose " the murky world or supressing evidence"
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jul/18/cps-mark-kennedy-trial
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