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A SRI LANKAN soldier had his conviction for threatening Tamil protesters quashed today as a judge ordered a retrial.
In a surprise move chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot quashed the conviction of Brigadier Priyanka Fernando on the grounds that court staff had made procedural “mistakes.”
The soldier served as Sri Lanka’s military attache in London where he was caught on camera making sinister slit-throat gestures towards protesters from the country’s beleaguered Tamil minority.
The Morning Star here publishes a speech that would have been given by Stop the War officer and longtime NEU and NUT activist Alex Kenny on the eve of the verdicts handed to Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal this week. He also explains why he couldn’t give it
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today