So the convicted killer of the Power family has died in prison, of natural causes probably arising from his diabetic condition. There is outstanding a re-investigation of the physical evidence in the case, in response to calls for the conviction to be overturned, but one wonders whether another police force, namely Devon and Cornwall, can be truly objective. There have already been a couple of investigations by TV journalists. One trusts that at least one of these will be updated,
Two factors which I recall from the time were not mentioned in the brief summary on BBC Radio Wales news this morning. Firstly, there was an immediate false arrest in the case and one wonders about the motivation for that. Secondly, against the spirit of the common law rules then still in force, evidence of Morris's previous convictions for violence was introduced and may well have swayed the jury. Justice may have been done, but it cannot be said that it was seen to be done.
Whether or not the facts of the killings are ever established beyond reasonable doubt, the lives of a lovely lively family were brutally extinguished, and I still grieve.
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