Mark Duggan: An Incomplete Inquest

Last Updated: January 10, 2014By

This is where British justice falls down – a lot. No witnesses saw Mark Duggan throw a firearm away and yet a jury decided by a margin of nine members to one that he was in possession of it and got rid of it. On what factual evidence were they basing this conclusion? None that I can tell.
This is not the first time that I have seen juries reach verdicts based on no factual evidence at all; a friend of mine won an appeal against conviction for a particularly nasty crime, but this meant the case had to go back for retrial and he was convicted again, even though there was no evidence to support the prosecution; the police simply hadn’t bothered to investigate whether anyone else could have committed the alleged crime, or whether a crime had even been committed.
This raises a lot of questions, and answers one.
That question being: Is the British legal system really the best it could possibly be?

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4 Comments

  1. Andrew Peacock January 10, 2014 at 7:44 pm - Reply

    it appears more and more THE POLICE CANT BE TRUSTED .AFTER HILLSBOROUGH AND THEN PLEBGATE AND NOW THIS !!!

  2. Joseph Smith January 10, 2014 at 8:22 pm - Reply

    If he didn’t have a gun in his possession at the time, whilst he still may have posed a threat, this couldn’t have a serious threat. In my opinion he was assassinated by a gun ho officer who saw an opportunity to either get revenge or inthe officers opinion rid society of a menace. Still illegal, this guy was illegally killed.

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