Police are 'trained to deliberately hide evidence they don't want defence to see' finds report exposing full extent of disclosure failures after collapse of a series of rape trials

arnoldwhat · 2018-04-03T11:55:32+00:00

Why are Brits not rioting over this.

tenchineuro · 2018-04-03T12:34:18+00:00

Documents show how police employ tactics to stop handing over vital evidence

Dossier reveals how officers and prosecutors hide some materials on a secret list

Other accusations include officers being reluctant to record witness statements

One ploy used by police is to put evidence 'on the MG6D', which refers to a list of sensitive unused material which a defendant's legal team does not have access to.

So the police flagrantly (and knowingly) violate the law. Anything to up the number of rape convictions, eh? And of course not one of them will be tried for breaking the law.

If they do this for rape cases, i bet they do this with all the other cases as well.

Consilio_et_Animis · 2018-04-03T14:19:42+00:00

This is "gendered violence against men", an men make-up around 95% of those ever prosecuted.

battyryder · 2018-04-03T11:40:59+00:00

The police aren't your friends, not anymore.

Tedesche · 2018-04-03T13:53:05+00:00

Jesus. This is far bigger than rape cases; this is something all of the UK should be in an uproar over.

For what it's worth, I have a friend who used to work for the DA where we live, and the amount of collusion and corruption between the police and the prosecutors is just insane. Nothing like hiding inconvenient evidence AFAIK, but still abhorrent (e.g. prosecutors deliberately doing a bad job at prosecuting cops for crimes committed on the job).

Lupinfujiko · 2018-04-03T15:08:49+00:00

This is shocking.

Why isn't this the top story in the UK today? Police withholding evidence.

That's a fucking bombshell.

Captainnuzzles · 2018-04-03T17:04:37+00:00

This would be illegal in the US where the state is required to turn over materially exculpatory evidence to the defense. This is called the Brady rule.

DevilishRogue · 2018-04-03T16:04:49+00:00

The police are too often the enemy of the law abiding. Incentives are needed to prevent them from framing innocent people instead of going after easy collars.

M8753 · 2018-04-03T14:55:40+00:00

But

"Yesterday it was announced by Scotland Yard that officers would be abandoning the policy of automatically believing victims of rape.",

so that's good at least?

Electroverted · 2018-04-03T18:39:09+00:00

This has gotta be, like, super duper illegal.

I guess if enough of them do it, no one goes to criminal court?

Title	Police are 'trained to deliberately hide evidence they don't want defence to see' finds report exposing full extent of disclosure failures after collapse of a series of rape trials
Author	furchfur
Upvotes	614
Comments	41
Date	April 3, 2018 10:03 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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