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  • Karen Torley

  • 46 / Female
  • Scotland, UK
  • Last Login: 12/4/2009

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As many people will know, I have been involved in campaigning for many years. The main campaign for several of those years was for Kenny Richey, who was wrongfully convicted and on Ohio's Death Row.
More recently I have become more interested in what happens to people suffering a miscarriage of justice in my own country, Bonnie Scotland.
I have been utterly appalled at what I am finding out about my countries treatment of some people.
Our justice system is not a fair one as I am learning.
People hear only about the high profile miscarriage of justices. They do not hear about the many others who have suffered and continue to suffer because their cases have never recieved attenion from the courts or the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Even if they do get some time with them, their cases are not given proper care and attention.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission do also make mistakes and refuse even the most compelling cases of injustice such as the William Gage case to name just one. William Gage's case is appalling, yet he still sits in a prison for a crime he did not commit.
Behind every story of injustice there is a human being, and their family.
The public should be told of the struggles some people have had and are still having, trying to clear their names.
Not everyone who is a miscarriage of justice has been accused of murder. That is something that is forgotten. However any time spent in prison for something you did not do is a miscarriage of justice.
Take the case of William Beck who has been fighting to clear his name for almost 28 years. Why is his story not given some publicity?
What is more amazing in William Beck's case is that he has been out of prison for 25 years or so. Yet he still fights to clear his name. He still tries to get his day in court.
Is anyone listening? Does anyone care?
William Beck has a remarkable story to tell and it should be told. People need to know about what happened to him and what continues to happen to him.
Many people would have given up hope, stopped their fight and God only knows what would have happened to them. Not William though.
To me these are the actions of an innocent man.
It should not take so long to re examine cases. Every single day a person sits in prison or sits without their name being cleared, is a day too long.
George Beattie's case is a tragic example of how long some people have had to wait to have their day in court.
Thirty five years till he finally gets to court is a total outrage. Yet he persevered for all those years to prove his innocence. Let's hope that he finally recieves the justice he has been denied all those years.
William Beck has persevered for 28 years so far.
Surely when someone is so adamant and will not give up trying to clear their name, this has to be worth a look at the case?
If someone was guilty, they would do their time, get their parole and walk away from it.
People like George and William cannot do this. They have been wronged and have had justice denied to them.
When prisoners refuse to admit to their "offending behaviour" which would mean they would get out of prison years earlier, yet don't take this chance, surely common sense should make the authorities wonder why someone would stay in prison refusing to admit guilt and continuing to state their innocence to anyone who will listen?
Robert Brown could have been freed 12 years earlier than he was if only he would have admitted he was guilty.
So if you are guilty you can go free but if you are innocent, you stay in prison? Does that seem fair to anyone?
No one likes to be accused of something they know they did not do. It has probably happened to every single one of us on a small scale at some point in our lives. We all know that feeling of indignation and thinking, "how could they think this?" and the sinking feeling in the pit of our stomaches when we cannot convince someone we did not do or say something.
Multiply that feeling and those thoughts by perhaps a million and that might be an idea of how someone must feel to be accused and convicted of some crime that they know they did not do yet no one will believe them.
Imagine not being believed for many years and having people talk about you in a horrible way. The whispers, the looks and comments like, "there's no smoke without fire".
Then one wonderful day, if you are very "lucky" and manage to be one of the stories that have made the media, and gained supporters, you are told, "We got it wrong" You are vindicated at long last!
Not enough people get the wonderful day in this country. Too many are still fighting to clear their names, with little or no support.
People think these things will never happen to them, and so do not get involved.
People need to educate themselves about these injustices and also about what to do if this ever happens to them.
Justice delayed is Justice denied! Plain and simple.
Justice is being delayed and denied in so many cases in Scotland. Have a look and see for yourself.
Karen Torley
For information on William Becks case, William Gage, and others see: Click Here < Scotched Justice Forum
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