NEW evidence has emerged that suggests a leading British police officer has approved a policy of discrediting expert witnesses for the defence in cases.
This may have led to the temporary gagging of at least one prominent expert witness, as reported in 快猫短视频 last year.
Heather Kirkwood, a lawyer from Seattle, Washington, has released notes she took at a lecture last year by Colin Welsh, the Metropolitan Police鈥檚 lead investigator for child abuse homicides. These record Welsh as blaming defence expert testimony for the majority of failures to obtain a conviction in such cases in 2008 and 2009. The solution, he went on to say, is for the prosecution to seek to undermine such witnesses鈥� credibility.
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聯Defence expert testimony was the main reason why 鈥榮haken baby鈥� prosecutions failed in 2008 and 2009聰
The Metropolitan Police says in response that it is 鈥渃ompletely committed to the judicial process and would never seek to improperly influence it.鈥�
