Notable extracts
Short verbatim extracts from the video. Each quote is under 80 words and attributed to the speaker. Extracted under fair-dealing for review and news reporting (CDPA 1988 s.30).
Ollie Buxton
When the CPS drops the retrial charges, it is not a minor procedural event. It is the CPS saying: we no longer believe we can prove what we told twelve people beyond reasonable doubt. That matters enormously.
Ollie Buxton
This is not a conspiracy. It is a cascade of ordinary institutional failures — each one unremarkable on its own, together catastrophic.
Ollie Buxton
The CCRC threshold is so high that cases which should be referred are not. That threshold needs to come down. An unsafe conviction is an unsafe conviction whether or not there is dramatic new evidence.