This Collective publicised the Ince case [6] and went on to produce the most detailed publicly available investigation of the 1974 Davis Case armed robbery. significant matters which appear to suggest that the jury were not presented with an accurate or adequate picture of what occurred.

Even if the convicted man, or others on his behalf, nourish the belief that he was wrongly convicted, that itself does not warrant the Home Secretary's interference. Roger Daltrey of The Who went on stage in 1975 wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with "George Davis Is Innocent". On 8th April 1976 the then Home Secretary said that he could reopen the case on some new evidence or other consideration of substance—that is, some consideration other than new evidence. The major part of the evidence that they adduced was evidence of identification; it was overwhelming and unanswerable evidence of identification.At the time of Davis's release, former Home Office Minister Alex Lyon wrote at some length to explain the genuine difficulties he had faced in seeking to resolve the constitutional difficulties he saw as preventing Davis's release from a conviction that he had regarded as unsafe.

Before Chappell's 1976 trial and conviction there was media criticism of the decision by the courts to refuse bail to the Headingley defendants (for example The Daily Telegraph editorial "WHEN TO GIVE BAIL", 28 August 1975) and eventually bail was granted to all of them. The following editorial from IOPC Director General Michael Lockwood first appeared in The Times on Friday 8 October 2021. If there are matters that need clarification and there is a premature referral to the Court of Appeal, the court, examining only that evidence, may come to the conclusion that the appeal should be dismissed.citation needed] The Davis campaigners who were remanded to prison to await trial for the Headingley sabotage continued their campaigning in support of one another within the prison system. That is a nice, discreet, polite, diplomatic way of saying that the Essex police picked out the bits of evidence that suited them and ignored the bits that did not suit them—in other words, that they were not carrying out their duty of seeking the truth. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services.

I can only assume that the intention behind the article is to force publication of the real Sills report. One of the judges, Lord Justice Hughes, said that the conviction, based on dubious identification evidence, was unsafe but that the court was not able positively to exonerate Davis. WhatDoTheyKnow also publishes and archives requests and responses, building a massive archive of information.On 19 August 1975, while Davis was serving a 20-year prison sentence for the Ilford LEB robbery, his supporters dug holes in the pitch and poured oil over one end of the wicket at the Headingley Cricket Ground, preventing further play in the Test match between England and Australia. At a number of specific locations, Davis was identified but the blood obtained from the location did not match his; neither did the blood match any of his co-accused.