Murder of Billy
Jo Jenkins BBC
Link 
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England still has a lot to do to improve its criminal justice system, as can be seen from
some of the cases below. This will require closer cooperation between the various parties
involved in administering the Criminal Justice System, who in turn will require a sensible
legal framework in which to work. A sensible legal framework will only arise if there are
sensible MPs to begin with. Perhaps more people will put themselves forward for election
as an Independent to break the stagnant swing of the Tory-Labor pendulum.
R V Jenkins Murder of Billy
Jo Jenkins BBC
Link
Original trial (1) and conviction: 2nd July 1998. Appeal Dismissed
21st December 1999.
Referral by the Criminal Cases Review Commission May 2003 - Appeal Allowed July
2004. Retrial (2) ordered for April 2005. The jury failed to reach a verdict. Retrial (3)
ordered. The jury failed to reach a verdict on 9th February 2006.
A summary of this case can be found at: http://innocent.org.uk/cases/sionjenkins/index.html
R V Cains Murder of Colin Hickman Appeal Dismissed
R V Jones (Jonathan) Murder of Harry and Megan Tooze
Appeal Allowed
(Fiancé's parents)
BBC Link
R V Fell Murder Appeal Allowed
R V Bowler (Sheila)
Appeal Allowed - retrial ordered
Murder
Defendant acquitted
R V Stone (Michael) Murder
1st Appeal Allowed - retrial ordered
Defendant convicted. 2nd Appeal dismissed.
See case summary here: http://www.scandals.org/michaelstone/index.html
Guardian newspaper article of re-trial
R V Taft (John)
Murder
Leave to Appeal Refused
'Beauty in the Bath'
murder
R V Gilfoyle (Eddie) Murder of his wife Appeal Dismissed
R V Rowe, Raphael and Johnson ('M25
Three') Murder Appeal
Allowed
"For the better understanding of those who have
listened to this judgement, and of those who may report it hereafter, this is not a
finding of innocence, far from it." ..........Lord Justice Mantell.
R V Cole (Kevin Samuel) Murder Appeal Dismissed
R V Clark (Sally) Murder of her
two babies
1st Appeal Dismissed
(large transcript)
Facts about 'Cot Death' or Suden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS): See also this link.
2nd Appeal allowed. 20th January 2004
Lord Justice Judge, deputy Lord Chief Justice, raised the “abhorrent” prospect that mothers may have been wrongly jailed for killing their babies. The judge, sitting with Mrs Justice Rafferty and Mr Justice Pitchers, said: “Unless we are sure of guilt, the dreadful possibility always remains that a mother, already brutally scarred by the unexplained deaths of her babies, may find herself in prison for life for killing them when she should not be there at all. In our community, and in any civilised community, that is abhorrent.”
R V Anthony (Donna) Murder of her two babies Appeal Dismissed 29/6/00
R V O'Brien (The Cardiff Three)
Murder
Appeal Allowed 25/1/00
Confession admitting guilt ruled as unreliable.