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calendar   Wednesday - August 07, 2013

no order, little law and no justice.

I guess this could be reasonably considered the Brit answer to law and order.
No order, little law and no justice.

I’ll bet there’s more than one police office who has already been in service for a long time but too short of retirement thinking, why the hell did I ever pick this job as a career move.

I guess it’s just my age and that of many of our readers here.  I don’t understand these things and I’ll guess you might not either.  There are some things that truly are black and white.  Or there was once upon a time when logic counted for something.

Having said all that, the headline is just a tad misleading.  There’s a reason the judge ruled that way, but hell.  The guy confessed to cops and then ran.
What else could he be but guilty?  Ah ... a case for Hercule Poirot. 

Or maybe Inspector Clouseau?

Take a look.


‘Career criminal’ walks free after two-month manhunt because his ‘wanted’ picture contaminated evidence

· Anthony Morrison, 32, faced robbery charges over £20,000 Asda ATM raid

· But prosecutors presented no evidence saying police mugshot had ‘contaminated identification by witnesses’

By Rosie Taylor

A criminal who was hauled to court to face robbery charges after a two-month manhunt has walked free after a judge ruled the ‘wanted’ picture of him issued by police had contaminated evidence.

Detectives had released a mugshot of career criminal Anthony Morrison, 32, when he was wanting for questioning over a £20,000 robbery at an Adsa supermarket.
But witnesses due to testify against him at his trial told police they recognised his face after seeing the wanted picture - despite all the robbers wearing balaclavas during the raid.

On the first day of the planned trial, prosecutors said there was ‘huge potential for contamination’ in the evidence against him.
Apart from the eyewitnesses, whose identification of Morrison was ‘contaminated’, the only other evidence was that his DNA was found on a distinctive jacket linked to the robbery.

But prosecutors said there was no evidence that Morrison was wearing the jacket at the time of the attack, and he could have worn it previously.
Simon Parry, prosecuting told Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court that he would offer no evidence against Morrison, adding: ‘Suspicion isn’t enough.’

Morrison, who had previously been jailed for six years for conspiracy to rob, was suspected of being one of four men armed with a sledgehammer and handgun who had attacked security guards filling ATM machines at Asda in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

One of the guards was punched twice in the face during the raid in 2011, while another heard one of the robbers shout ‘Just shoot him’.
The thieves made off with a cash box containing £20,000. Suspects Jason Butterworth, 33, and Michael Ford, 34, were arrested but Morrison fled to Spain in December 2011.

The following July he called police from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to say he wanted to give himself up.

Arrangements were made for him to board an aircraft to Manchester because officers were legally unable to go to Holland to escort him back to Britain.

Morrison agreed to be arrested by officers when he arrived at Manchester Airport but when he touched down at Terminal One from his EasyJet flight he fled before he got to passport control.

Read the rest of this. Interesting.

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