Following the recent acquittal of Colin Duffy, and his accusations on the 23rd January 2012, that the police planted DNA in the car that was involved in the killings of two young British soldiers in Northern Ireland in March 2009, - and from what I have personally experienced in connection to previous miscarriages of justice, I would like re-examine the dangers of ‘so called’ forensic evidence, as many a time we are being led up the garden path in regards to the credibility and reliability of such forensic evidence. As far too often such evidence is being proved to either have been planted, false, or incorrect in the first place. So this kind of evidence is far from infallible and has previously proved to be the case, for even forensic experts have got it wrong in the past.  In the Mark Duggan case, where he was shot dead my police marksmen, and what after all the sparked off and ignited the London Riots of 2011, - here it's alleged the gun found at the scene, which the poilce are saying he had in his posession, - though Duggan's fingerprints have not been found on it in this case. 

     Like all "political" cases, and one as sensitive as this where two young British soldiers were murdered outside the Massereene army barracks in Antrim. - Duffy's co-accused Brian Shivers was convicted on the 20th January 2012, of the 'Real IRA' attack that resulted to these two murders. - And that following such an atrocity, and before this conviction and trial, - the police are under such pressure to find the guilty party, - that many a time in these kind of circumstances, ‘normal’ procedures are often overlooked, as common sense goes out of the window and it’s here where the “Common Purpose” mentality kicks in, and miscarriages of justice are often looming just over the horizon.  So what do they seem to do in circumstances such as this, is that they obviously round up as many and of the usual suspects as possible, targeting those whom may show dissident sympathies or have some kind of previous trouble with the police and perhaps some form of sectarian violence in the past.  Yet we all know of the years of trouble out there in Northern Ireland between these two sets of indoctrinated populations, that it goes without saying, many a local young lad or girl, whom many come from typical working class backgrounds, and who have been suckered into or intimidated to join ‘the cause’, - and no matter whether they be Catholic or Protestant, they are taught to hate one another, and it is this form of indoctrination that starts at a very young age.  The police say they are still looking for ‘others’ involved, so we are yet to see how this case fully develops.     

     Nor can anyone else really say the police planted Colin Duffy’s DNA in the car, - though both parties involved certainly deny it one way or another, - so who’s telling the truth?   

     The judge said: “Had it been desired to concoct such evidence by placing such DNA on the latex tip, why not place the DNA on the jar found in the glove compartment and/or the bullets found in that jar, thereby constructing a much stronger case and potentially irrefutable inference that Duffy was intimately involved with these guns and therefore intimately involved with the attack itself?” So he clearly dismisses Duffy’s claim the police planted the DNA. [5] Though it can equally be argued, had the police planted the DNA on the jar and the bullets, that it would in fact look even more suspect, as surely you’d have to give credit where due; as even though the person involved might have been an amateur, - they must of realised they were going on a mission to kill two British soldiers, they would have known how massive and extensive the manhunt would be.  They know, and especially following many a IRA case, that was later on appealed and proved to be ‘false’ forensic evidence was found to have been planted before, and how important and significant it was to not leave their own DNA and fingerprints.  So surely they would of been that extra vigilant, to be so stupid enough and contaminate three different items, - is asking a bit too much for any jury to expect to believe. 

     I reluctantly write these following words with caution, and would be lying to say I’m not afraid, for what has happened to myself and the police in the past, I know more than anyone what they are capable of, though in my case it occurred in the UK. - I have no sympathies for anyone who wishes to go around shooting or blowing up people, and they should of course be seriously dealt with, as should all murderers.  Though what seems to happen time and time again and despite the many previous miscarriages of justice, which is proof within itself our governments really don’t care, as why else do the CPS bring forward prosecutions on the flimsiest of evidence?  As all they’re are really doing, is one; milking the taxpayer dry with their extortionate costs, and two; hoping they may strike lucky and find a gullible enough jury to convict whoever so happens to be in the dock. 

     In 1989 I made a “secret deal” with the police in order to be granted immunity from charges on a £1,000,000 fraud I had been involved in.  Then when partway through that secret pact with Scotland Yard’s SFO, their go-between police officer admitted to me; ‘...they [the Police] could pretend they’ve found some one’s fingerprints on something, or even plant them onto an object the suspect has never even touched before’.  Little did the policeman, whom was telling me this incredibly explosive confession, realise I had a hidden microphone taped to my chest, and that our conversation was being recorded via a reel to reel tape recorder by some bloke [connected to me], sitting in a van only yards from where we were positioned on a bench in Finsbury Park, North London, in 1987. 

     Had I not had this powerful evidence to produce to my solicitors, whom then in turn confirmed to the police the contents of the tape, and that a series of high profile IRA trial’s and appeals were also taking place around the same period of time, though unbelievably not to my knowledge, and in fact it didn’t even occur to me, until I started writing this book,[part of this article is an extract from Trapped in a Masonic World, which I started to write in 2008 and finished in 2011 as an eBook, as no publisher would touch it with a barge pole], that, that was the case, and how significant my taped recording was to the trials of the; Birmingham Six, the Guilford Four, the Maguire Seven and Danny McNamee’s case, when in 1987 he was sentenced to 25 years for the Hyde Park bombing, despite McNamee pleading that he was innocent.  In 1998, shortly after his release under the “Good Friday Agreement”, a judge overturned his conviction, deeming it unsafe because of withheld fingerprint evidence that implicated other bomb-makers.  In the case of the Birmingham Six, the Court of Appeal stated about the forensic evidence that: “Dr Skuse’s conclusion was wrong, and demonstrably wrong, judged even by the state of forensic science in 1974”. Then, the Guildford Four:  Lord Chief Justice, Lord Lane, said that the police had; “completely fabricated the typed notes, amending them to make them look more effective, and then creating hand-written notes to give the appearance of contemporaneous notes...”  And the convictions of the Maguire Seven were quashed in 1991.  The court held that members of the London Metropolitan Police beat some of the seven into confessing to the crimes and withheld information that would have cleared them.

     If it wasn’t for my secretly taped recorded evidence, I would’ve no doubt been sentenced to imprisonment for a minimum of 6 to 8 years and most probably more.  My case was deemed “not in the public’s interest”, the case was held privately in-camera in the back room of a Judge’s Chambers.  I had to agree in a sworn affidavit to remain silent, “a gagging order” for 3 years, whilst leaving London as part of the deal. 

     I truly regret not knowing about the intricate details of those IRA cases, or of their significance nearer the actual time of their trials and appeals, because I know if I had, then perhaps I would have come forward with my story much earlier, and who knows, but it could’ve helped hasten the outcome of those cases. And it is due to the following news of Colin Duffy’s trial, and where he say’s; “They DNA must of been planted”, then on this occasion; I feel compelled to speak out what it is I know and have experienced. 

     Colin Duffy has been found not guilty on two previous murders, - though I obviously can’t say anything in regards to those matters, for if he was found not guilty, then I can only assume there was obviously insufficient evidence for two sets of juries to find him so.  Apart from what I already mentioned about myself, I too have been framed by the police for a crime I never committed, spent 11 months on remand for it, and was beaten to a pulp by the police for my troubles.  Arresting Duffy, was a ‘safe bet’, his known for his political allegiance, is a public figure out in Ireland, mainly due to the other failed cases, so it could be argued that by throwing Duffy back to lions, was one of those gambles the police and the CPS take at times, you could say it’s a bit like a lottery, as far too many cases go to court, where there is quite clearly insufficient evidence, yet they still have a punt with the taxpayers money.

     When I was first arrested and in relation to that charge, I was additionally accused of murder and armed robbery, as well as a number other linked accusations and charges that carried life sentences if found guilty.  I was guilty of the fraud charge only and pleaded so, yet despite my guilty plea I was found “not guilty”, as it was deemed “not in the public interest”, and the Crown Prosecution Service quoting ‘Nolle prosequi’, Latin for;“to be unwilling to pursue”.   Though the truth of the matter was, that the revelations and details of my case was deemed far too politically sensitive and embarrassing for both the government and police for them to have wanted it to have been heard in an open court, and it was for these reasons alone, as to why I was found “not guilty” of a crime I had pleaded “guilty” to.

      As I mentioned earlier, little did I realise it at the time, but the circumstances of my case was somehow connected with several high profile IRA appeals and trials that were still in process, including Danny McNamee’s, alias the Hyde Park bomber, - which was talking place in the High Court in London for his false conviction for that crime, - exactly whilst I was in the course of doing a deal with the police.  In 1987 I was involved in the fraud.  When subsequently I was indirectly caught, in which I then did a deal with the police and Her Majesty’s Treasury department.  The deal involved handing over almost half a million pounds worth in blank Giro cheques to the police, - which was as good as cash, - in return for being granted immunity, whereas all charges against me and one other person involved in the fraud were to be quashed.

     Before I went ahead with the deal, I made sure I was “wired”, so had a hidden microphone attached to my chest.  I only decided to wear this concealed microphone, as I was sure the police were going to do a dirty on me, and turn around and say: “What deal? - The Police don’t do deals”, and I was proved right as that’s exactly what they tried to do, and not long after I did the actual deal with them, with a high ranking police officer from Scotland Yard who said those exact words to me, and the reason I just quoted them. 

     The police weren’t particularly happy about granting immunity to me, considering there was no one else for them to charge, and apparently it was H.M. Treasury who were more willing to grant the immunity, by ways of not pressing charges, - in return if they were able to recover the £500,000 from me.   Though this wasn’t the intention of the police and they thought they could kill two birds with one stone, i.e., get the £500,000 worth of blank Giro cheques back, and then re-arrest me and find those who were further up the chain of command than I was.  Yet despite all this, I’d made it more than clear, if I were to inform on anyone, I would be as good as dead, and if that was the case and the road the police were trying to take me down, then I’d rather go to prison and still have the half million pounds to sort out and get a percentage of on my release. 

     So with that in mind, little did I realise the police were going to pursue the matter of getting me to try and inform on other people I may have been involved with, - as when it came to meeting up with the police officer I was to liaise with and arrange our deal, he unexpectedly blurted out; “they could pretend they found or could plant someone’s fingerprints on something they’ve never touched before”.  The police officer told me; how easy it was to “lift” someone’s fingerprints from one smooth surface, such as a glass or cup the suspect may have been given during the time they were being interviewed, or whilst in custody in general.  By simply using Sellotape, and then re-sticking it down onto another surface would allow you to transfer the print, – the “evidence”, - would now be in place, though not as strong as the original print, but evident enough for an image to be detected and taken by a forensic scientist, and then presented to a court as evidence.

     My ex-girlfriend and I were arrested with a gun put to the temples of our heads.  In fact I had two, I was put in the back of an unmarked police car, with two plain clothes men, whom could have been anyone for all I knew, and I was sandwiched in between them, whilst they both had the barrels of their handguns pushed up against my temples.  We were held under the Anti-Terrorist Act, and kept in ‘incommunicado’.  To put pressure on me to talk, they then raided my parent’s home and arrested my totally innocent father and brother who were both held under the same conditions as me and my ex-girlfriend, they then threatened to go and get my innocent mother. 

     Anyway six years after my encounter with the police and being granted immunity, – in April 1993 Craig D. Harvey, a New York State Police trooper was charged with fabricating evidence ^[1] after he admitted he and another trooper “lifted fingerprints” from items the suspect John Spencer, had touched while in Troop C headquarters and during his arrest.  Harvey attached the fingerprints to evidence cards, and later claimed that he had pulled the fingerprints from the scene of the murder.  This forged forensic evidence, was then used during the trial, and John Spencer was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison, for a crime he never committed.  Craig D. Harvey was a Police Lieutenant, who headed the identification unit, and was a 16-year veteran of the force.  He pleaded guilty on July 29, 1993 to fabricating evidence in three cases, and agreed to serve 2½ to 7 years in prison. – David L. Harding was a 7-year veteran of the Police force, and was sentenced on December 16, 1992, to 4 to 12 years in prison and fined $20,000 for fabricating evidence in four documented cases. – Robert M. Lishansky was an 11-year veteran of the Police force, was sentenced June 10, 1993 to 6 to 18 years in prison for fabricating evidence in 21 cases.  Now fabricated fingerprint evidence is bad enough, so imagine the damage they could do with someone’s DNA, which is so much easier to plant than that of a fingerprint.

     In the case of the late Philip John Jones, like me, he too was writing about and exposing the Freemasons and illuminati.  He believed he was poisoned by a married women he’d been having an affair with, and that she took physical parts of his body, such as dead skin, nails, body and head hair etc.  He also believes he was a victim of a honey-trap kind of setup, as her husband seemed aware of their affair.  So what he’s basically saying is that she may well have been sent by those he was about to expose, an undercover agent [her] or agents [and her husband] to gather a physical linkage they needed, to either set him up, or make some kind of poison that killed him, she apparently was administering him “vitamins tablets” daily and for a period of time, and would always take them away with her, which is rather odd, as isn’t this the kind of thing you normally leave in the cupboard or draw?

     I have read part of the case, and believe he more likely died of cancer in which he was diagnosed of dying from on the 24th November 2009.  I mainly include these following few lines, to highlight how easy it is to set-up someone by gaining their DNA via this way: “Aware of his vulnerabilities, they used a ‘damsel in distress’ to gain access to his personal space, and his personal castoffs [hair, nails, skin-dandruff etc. found in his bathroom] in order to directly manipulate his health.  And more than likely, to ensure the probability of their success, a mixture of homemade ‘vitamins’ compounded by his Inamorata of the moment were added to seal his fate”.  Source: edited version by L. C. Vincent. ^[2]                                                        

     During December 2010, and whilst Julian Assange was still remanded in police custody and kept in solitary confinement at Wandsworth Prison in London, Wikileaks disclosed a confidential US State Department cable that revealed the State Department had asked embassies abroad to collect biometric information [DNA] on individuals that include the Director General of the World Health Organisation [WHO] and key advisors to United Nations, including Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.  And I’m glad to see Wikileaks have been able to shine the light on the seriousness of this matter, and how prevalent this kind of sinister way in gathering peoples DNA really is, and how easy it can be obtained.

     I would also like to add, that in my own personal opinion, the allegations brought forward by those two unscrupulous honey-pot women in Sweden, most certainly look false, and a more worrying thing is, that they too could have obtained Mr Assange’s DNA or other biometric information such as his saliva, semen or fingerprints, and I think this kind of knowledge should be made public, in case somewhere along the line, ‘they’, Mr Assange’s enemies, suddenly try and come out with some other, but even far more worse allegations than his presently facing, they even may try a use it as evidence against him in the present case?  Because what’s interesting to note Mr Assange, it’s quite possible that they now too have your DNA as well as your fingerprints following your recent spell in “Wanno”.

     In Michael Mansfield’s book: Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer, in his chapter ‘Prints and Impressions’-The Angry Brigade and the Fallibility of Forensic Science, he raises such dangers and also mentions, that he too has suspected the validity of certain fingerprint evidence in past trials, and that he could see how it could be possible to fabricate such evidence to begin with.  However, saying that, – even he throws some doubt as to whether it could be successfully done without the forensic scientist discovering this fact, but before I go onto that here’s what Mansfield’s says about his own experience, page 36, – he talks about a case in 1975 where one of his defendants, Cornelius McFadden, was accused of planting a firebomb contained within a cigarette packet, though it didn’t detonate, so was therefore discovered.  McFadden’s fingerprints were alleged to have been found on the face of an alarm clock used to activate the device, though he vehemently denied ever touching it.

     Mansfield goes on to say he and his team had to examine whether it was possible the fingerprints had been planted.  Page 37, he states that when it came to cross-examining the prosecution fingerprint expert, they asked him; “…lifted [fingerprints] from a crime scene and then deposited onto a laboratory slide, is there any reason why it cannot also be placed on any other surface?” The expert was adamant ‘this was not possible’, though Mansfield and his team went on to prove it could be done by ways as I’ve already explained, – whereas when they did it in the court to prove the possibility, they used Ninhydrin aluminium fine dusting powder, a smooth piece of glass surface, and Sellotape to prove the point, and very effectively they did.

     However, Mansfield goes on to question his teams own findings in regards to some complications from a forensic point of view by asking on page 38; “How do you remove the Sellotape from the transposed mark without leaving an outline of the sticky tape?”  “How do you prevent some of the fingerprint powder remaining on the transferred mark?” – “Most of all, the whole operation would necessitate corruption on a massive scale by Scene of Crime Officers [SOCO’s], laboratory assistants, liaison officers, exhibits officers and fingerprint experts themselves.”  It seems as if Mansfield is assuming, that surely they would find some form of residue of Ninhydrin aluminium fine dusting powder used by forensic teams in helping to emphasise suspected prints, and that this procedure would contaminate that evidence, and that traces of the aluminium powder would be found among the transferred print.

     Other processes can be used such as Iodine or fluorescence lighting etc.  Normally when a suspected print is found, it is then dusted with the fine powder which is then blown away, and the remaining powder sticks to the fingerprint ridges thus revealing the required print.  Then once this has been established, it is normally then “lifted” using sticky tape and then transferred to a piece of white paper or card [or glass slide], which then enables the forensic scientist to truly examine it close-up, and perhaps compare it, or them, to the current fingerprint database. – After all, if a finger print had been found on the direct surface of the bodywork of car, a kitchen worktop surface, fridge, freezer, cooker or a sheet of glass etc., then obviously you wouldn’t normally be able to take these kind of sized items along to the laboratory for further examination.

     Mansfield’s assumption is specific to a sequence of events, which is in order to be able to successfully dust-down and highlight a hidden fingerprint, – that during that detection process it would be far too difficult, or in fact impossible for someone else, and especially so by a police officer, to then be able to fraudulently lift and transfer and then ‘plant’ a fingerprint without it being discovered, this is what had happened by a forensic scientist.

     Though how it’s successfully done, is that the transfer of the fingerprint is done ‘prior’ to forensic examination, and of course by an unscrupulous police officer or someone else hoping to frame another person.  Try it yourself now, stop reading, go and pick up a ceramic cup, make sure it’s dark in colour, as white is harder to see, grip the cup firmly in your hand making sure your fingerprints are on the surface, now angle the cup under a light, and you will clearly be able to see your fingerprints.  If you can’t, then perhaps your hands are too clean, so wait awhile or dirty them up a little.  If you had done this on a glass surface, then the prints would be so much more prominent and even clearer to see.  If you then got some Sellotape, placed it over the print, smoothed it down, and them peeled it off again, then re-laid the Sellotape down again onto say a windowpane surface, you would have successful transferred the print, and of course no Ninhydrin aluminium dusting powder was ever used or present.

     However, if forensic expert was to then dust down the same windowpane with the aluminium dusting powder, the print would jump out and obviously be clearly seen.  And a quick reminder, fingerprints can be obtained from a variety of surfaces, seats, tables, cell doors, toilets doors, handles, cups and glasses, tins of drinks and items you’ve been handed to look at etc., – and one more thing, even if there was an outline of sticky tape as Mansfield suggest, by simply using a cotton wool bud, white spirit or nail varnish remover, – this will soon solve that problem.

     Michael Mansfield QC, also represented victim’s families at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, and has appeared in some high-profile miscarriage cases, among his portfolio of cases includes Hanratty [post appeal] who was hung in 1962, the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six and the Hyde Park bombing case.  And in the latter case, Danny McNamee’s conviction of conspiracy to cause the explosion in July 1982 was quashed on appeal.^[3] - As well as the Stephen Lawrence case, that brought about the new “Double Jeopardy” law, whereas a person can be re-trialled, despite being found not guilty at a previous trial of the same charge. – Regardless to this unjust changing of the law, no one has ever been convicted of Lawrence’s murder.  Mansfield cites, that among the major causes of miscarriages of justice that have occurred, is due to; “improperly obtained confessions, flawed identification or scientific evidence”.  In McNamee’s case, the Court of Appeal found the conviction; “unsafe because of questionable fingerprint evidence”.  Although the appeal process may lead to freedom, psychological pressures can be overwhelming.  Mansfield says; “The greatest iniquity is if you protest your innocence then you forfeit parole.  This often means that you end up serving more time than the person who did commit the crime”.

     And this is how the system works, say you were sentenced to 8 years, you’re normally serve 4 years and be entitled to be set free after this period.  However, say you’re truly are not guilty and strongly protest your innocence decide to appeal, it may take 2 years or more before your case can be reheard, – and now let’s say you lost that appeal. – You’re then simply just sent back to prison to “restart” the whole 8 years you was originally first given, despite you’ve already served two years out of it. – You’ll now have to serve 6 years in total before your set free, and not the four.

   So, is it any wonder why so many innocent people still decide not to appeal, as the chances and odds are always stacked against you and the likelihood of you being found guilty again is very high and very likely, as you will see by the following figures, as on the 31st  of March 2002, – I couldn’t seem to find more up to date information, – the Criminal Cases Review Commission, established in 1997 alone it had handled some 4,830 applications from people claiming to have suffered rough justice in criminal courts.

     Of these, only 161 resulted in referrals to the Court of Appeal and only 64 convictions were quashed.  Now what you have to also consider is this, if 4,830 applications were made in this just quoted period, and the appellants are fully aware they would be sacrificing the time they’ve already served in prison if they were to fail and not win their appeal, then surely it can only therefore reflect how many injustices are really occurring in our courts everyday of the week, bar of course when there not sitting, and that our current appeal system is also flawed.

     What’s equally important to consider, is that even though “planted” or fabricated fingerprint evidence is rare and has only occurred in a rather small number of cases in comparison to the overall majority of all other court cases involving such evidence, is the fact what is just as worrying is that the abundant of “wrongly identified” fingerprint evidence, that is far too often used and regularly presented in many cases all over the world as being genuine forensic evidence. 

     Remember we’re born and bred to believe in and trust authority and our so called; Masonic, Alpha, Delta, Kappa, – I explain all about these groups, – like fraternal experts, and everyone knows that if you find a fingerprint and its submitted and used against the defendant in the dock as being “their fingerprint”, then surely they must be guilty, or at the very least linked to the crime somehow?  Forensic scientists have long claimed fingerprint evidence is infallible, but for example, in a widely publicised error that landed an innocent man behind bars as a suspect in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, alerted the world to the potential flaws in the fingerprint system.

     Criminologist Simon Cole has shown that not only do errors occur, but as many as a thousand incorrect fingerprint matches could be made each year in the US alone. ^[4] This is in spite of safeguards intended to prevent errors.  Cole’s 2009 study was the first to analyse all publicly known mistaken fingerprint matches.  In analysing these cases of faulty matches dating from 1920, which seems rather low, but as Cole suggests, that of the 22 incidents exposed, including eight since 1999 and a rapid increase, are merely the tip of the pyramid, – oops, I meant iceberg.

     Despite the publicly acknowledged cases of error, fingerprint examiners have long held that fingerprint identification is “infallible”, and testified in court that their error rate for matching fingerprints is “zero”.  “Rather than blindly insisting there is zero error in fingerprint matching, we should acknowledge the obvious, study the errors openly and find constructive ways to prevent faulty evidence from being used to convict innocent people”, said Cole.  Though, in my opinion the true reason they don’t want to admit they’ve been wrong, and that their error rate is zero, is because they know it’s very likely that many a person has been executed on such “infallible” evidence.  And even though I can’t find the actual statistic for similar cases in the UK, you can basically take it as being very much on par with that of the US, and I dread to think what the statistics are in other countries around the world were corruption is more rife than it is here in the West.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Police_Troop_C_scandal%...

[2] “savethemales.ca – Illuminati Use “Magick” Against Us.” a href="http://www.henrymakow.com/illuminati_use_magick_against.html%3E">http://www.henrymakow.com/illuminati_use_magick_against.html>;;.

[3] “INNOCENT – Fighting miscarriages of justice.” a href="http://innocent.org.uk/misc/justice_innocent.html%3E">http://innocent.org.uk/misc/justice_innocent.html>;;.

[4] “Study Of Faulty Fingerprints Debunks Forensic Science a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050913124509.htm%3E">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050913124509.htm

[5] http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/police_dismiss_duffy_s_plant...

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