Surveys sent to witnesses ‘contradict’ argument given for halting trial of two ex-police officers and solicitor
Further doubt has been cast on the ruling that stopped the trial of two former South Yorkshire police officers and the force’s ex-lawyer on charges of perverting the course of public justice, for amending police statements after the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
The trial judge, Mr Justice William Davis, ruled on 26 May that the jury must acquit the three defendants because the official inquiry by Lord Justice Taylor, to which the amended police statements were sent, was not a “course of public justice”.
