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[HaveHope]

oh hes guilty

Oi, Alex Salmond lover, behave yourself.

Anyway what are you doing here?

Thought by now the DR would have you on their pay roll and you would be too busy inventing stories for them, rather than mingle with us on here. 

[HaveHope]

i dont enough has been made of the john ried connection in this case.

Dont forget McConnell 

On the 3rd of March 2002 a 28 year old man called Justin Macalroy co-hosted a charity fund raising dinner for the Labour Party. Macalroy was in the company of a friend Frank Roy who is the Labour MP for Wishaw. Also present was Jack Maconnell the First Minister for Scotland and John Reid the (then) Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Also present were various Special Branch bodyguards, senior police officers and a surveillance team from the Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency who had Justin Macalroy under surveillance for the previous FOUR YEARS.

The SDEA had recently tailed Macalroy while he traveled to Estonia where he met some men who were then arrested while trying to smuggle a Multi-million pound consignment of Heroin back into Scotland from Estonia. Macalroy had been openly boasting about various meetings between himself and senior figures within the Russian Mafia. He claimed that he had previously traveled out to meet them and had also entertained them in a Glasgow hotel. The police "forgot" to arrest Mcalroy, and instead arrested two other men.

Four days after the charity dinner Justin Macalroy stepped out of his Mercedes jeep outside his house and was shot dead. The SDEA were asked why they had not witnessed or filmed the incident and they claimed that after FOUR YEARS of surveillance and despite Justin Macalroy's apparently serious criminal activities and associates, the SDEA had (48 hours before the assassination) suddenly decided that Macalroy was no longer of interest and that they had REMOVED THE SURVEILLANCE.

Jack Maconnell and Frank Roy were further embarrassed by the revelation that Justin Macalroy had slipped more than ten thousand pounds into the Labour party coffers during that charity dinner and in a poor attempt to hide the loot his mother's name was written beside three separate large amounts of cash with her surname spelled differently each time! It was bad enough for Frank Roy and Jack Maconnell that their friend Justin Macalroy had been a suspected gangster and heroin importer with links to the Russian Mafia but now they had over ten thousand pounds that they had not declared to anyone. In an amazing twist the secretary who worked in the Wishaw office (that is shared by Jack Maconnell and Frank Roy) was subsequently jailed for handling that money!

Frank Roy and Jack Maconnell were never punished. While it is clear that major heroin barons do amass millions of pounds, that money comes from ten-pound deals. Every tenner comes from someone finding their house burgled or some poor pensioner being kicked to death for her meager pension money. Is that the sort of money that the voters would expect their elected representatives to earn?

On the 2nd of May 2002, a full two months after Justin Macalroy had been murdered (it has been alleged by the solicitor Bob Kerr) that the MP for Wishaw Frank Roy was contacted by a certain person who was connected to Justin Macalroy.

Bob Kerr has claimed that one of the police officers who were involved in the murder enquiry told him that the MP for Wishaw Frank Roy had contacted a senior officer who was involved in the murder enquiry and somehow put pressure on the officer to make a bogus arrest in order that Justin Macalroy's case could be closed.

http://s11.invisionfree.com/Creativewriters/ar/t2291.htm

[HaveHope]

i dont enough has been made of the john ried connection in this case.

He done well for himself over the years. 

Authors
Rt Hon Lord Reid of Cardowan PhD, ISRS Chair and UCL
Honorary Professor
Before leaving Parliament in 2010 after after 23 years as an MP, Dr
John Reid had served at the highest levels of government, including as
Home Secretary, Secretary of State for Defence, Health, Northern
Ireland, and Scotland, and as Leader of the House of Commons.
He is a leading thinker on security and resilience and regularly
publishes articles and comments on these issues in media throughout
the world. He is a Principal in the Chertoff Group.
Lord Reid established the ISRS in 2008

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isrs/publications/CyberDoctrine

[nugnug]

he then went on to be home secretary so we had a home Secretary who thought there was nothing wrong with haveing dinner with a known drug dealer.

[admin]

William Gage loses legal bid to overturn conviction

A man jailed for a gangland killing in South Lanarkshire has lost a legal bid to overturn his murder conviction.

William Gage, 40, was found guilty of shooting 30-year-old Justin McAlroy six times as he returned to his family home in Cambuslang in March 2002.

He was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years in prison.

Gage has always protested his innocence and lost a previous appeal in 2006. His second was rejected at the Court of Appeal in Edinburgh.

Gage's latest appeal was referred by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates possible miscarriages of justice.

More at link above.

[HaveHope]

A very sad day indeed.  My heart goes out to Wullie, his family and loyal supporters.

Of all the appeals coming up in the near future I wouldnt be suprised if just one was successful, a token gesture to say, see the system works. 

[nugnug]

this is riduclusss

[HaveHope]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2012/01/27/william-gage-fails-in-bid-to-have-conviction-overturned-for-drug-murder-86908-23722801/

Today, judge Lord Hamilton, sitting with Lords Reed, Carloway, Mackay and Nimmo Smith, said in their written ruling: "Qualitative criticisms can undoubtedly be made of the evidence in each of these strands but, when the evidence is looked at as a whole, the case against the appellant was, in our view, compelling."

They added that they were not persuaded the trial was unfair.

The decision concluded: "In all circumstances this appeal must be refused."

After telling Gage his appeal had been rejected, there were shouts heard from the public gallery of "the fight goes on" and "keep your head up".

Speaking outside court, Gage's solicitor, Aamer Anwar, said: "For eight years William Gage has protested his innocence and we will continue to do so.

"He is deeply disappointed by the decision.

"Once we have an opportunity to read the judgment we will consider whether to seek an appeal to the Supreme Court."

[nugnug]

i hope they do seek an appeal to the supreme court.

[Sandra Lean]

Qualitative criticisms can undoubtedly be made of the evidence in each of these strands but, when the evidence is looked at as a whole, the case against the appellant was, in our view, compelling."

I'm not sure what's worse - that they think we're stupid enough to believe this, or that they want us to think that they're stupid enough to believe this.

It's an absolute disgrace. They've actually been nearly honest at one point - "the evidence looked at as a whole.... is compelling." It most certainly is - compelling evidence that they've got the wrong man.

[admin]

I don't know why they bother to cite particular strands of evidence as critical to cases, it seems to be whenever there's an appeal, critical evidence no longer is if it is left in shreds. Perhaps appeal tactics should instead be to cast doubt over something which was deemed to be of little or no consequence to the prosecution case, all things being equal by time of appeal those completely meaningless pieces of 'evidence' would become crucial.

[nugnug]

i dint think the Scottish labour party want this case delved into to deeply

[HaveHope]

MOJO (The Miscarriages of Justice Organisation)

Press Release William Gage Loses his Appeal
 
It has just been announced that William Gage’s appeal against the conviction of murder, had been denied. This judgment is a travesty of justice, which relies wholly on circumstantial evidence, it is inconceivable that the evidence, the burden of proof, led at the trial can prove beyond a reasonable that William Gage has any involvement with the shooting of Justin McIlroy.
 There is no direct evidence that connects William Gage with the shooting at Acacia Way in Cambuslang. They are keeping a man locked up in what can only be described as a spurious innuendo, and not facts that should be used in a court of law. The continue to maintain that a ‘white car’ found in Easterhouse is linked to William Gage via DNA found on particles of the clothing in the boot of the car, there was also two other unidentified DNA found on the clothing as well.
 More importantly they allege that 8 particles of Firearm Discharge Residue, FDR, found on articles of the clothing, show that the white car was involved with a gun crime, and as no reporting of an gun incident involving a white car, then this shows that this car must be tied to the shooting of Justin McIlroy.
 There are a number of problems with this argument first, the Appeal Court accepts that the FDR was a common type and ‘similar’ to the FDR found at the scene of crime. Similar means that it is not the same, therefore the 8 particles did not come from the gun that shot Justin McIlroy.
 The worst part of the Appeal Court, and Crowns argument, is the fact that they maintain that 8 particles prove a gun crime. This is an absurd assumption, as one shot would release thousand of particles, never mind 5 shots that killed Justin McIlroy. According to Dr John Lloyd former Home Office Forensic Scientist, “when a gun is fired, this primer when it is fired turns into thousands and thousands of minute particles”. But only 6 were found on the jacket, three on the surface and three particles in the pocket. It is more likely that the lack of FDR shows it has come from cross-cross contamination, even in the U.S.A a number of States will not allow the use of FDR as evidence as it is highly contaminable. Therefore there is no proof that this jacket was worn when a gun was fired, and certainly no proof to link it with the gun that killed Justin McIlroy.
 William Gage’s fight for justice goes on, the quality of evidence presented at trial and now propped up by the Scottish Appeal Court, is a disgrace and should enrage any intelligent honest person. This case will be going to the Supreme Court, and if necessary to the European Court of Human Rights, this is a travesty of justice, that in the 21st Century a man can languish in a Scottish Prison serving a life sentence that is purely circumstantial, and rather than be wholly compelling makes a mockery of Justice, Lord Hamilton should hang his head in shame.
 

http://www.miscarriagesofjustice.org/case-files/fighting-for-freedom/william-gage/why-is-william-gage-serving-a-life-sentence-for-murder

Why is William Gage serving a life sentence for murder? | MOJO Scotland
www.miscarriagesofjustice.org
Even the BBC “Frontline Scotland believes this man William Gage is in jail for a murder he didn’t commit”. These are the opening words of BBC Frontline Scotland’s 2005 programme Beyond Reasonable Doubt about the conviction of William Gage for the murder of Justin McIlroy.

[HaveHope]

OPINION OF THE COURT

delivered by THE LORD JUSTICE GENERAL

in

REFERENCE

by

THE SCOTTISH CRIMINAL CASES REVIEW COMMISSION

in the case of

WILLIAM LEWIS GAGE

Appellant;

against

HER MAJESTY'S ADVOCATE

Respondent:
_______

Appellant: Scott, Q.C., Moll; Aamer Anwar & Co., Glasgow

Respondent: Mitchell, Q.C., A.D.; Crown Agent

 

27 January 2012

http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/2012HCJAC14.html

[HaveHope]

This result today, is a major blow for people who believe in Wullie Gage's innocence.  Everyone is shocked and stunned.  It is a very sad day indeed.  In this case and others we just have to stay confident and positive. 

If anyone would like to send Willie a few words of support and encouragement here is his address.

William Gage       
2319    C3/15
HMP Shotts
Lanarkshire
ML7 4LE



http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/295263-man-jailed-for-gangland-murder-of-drug-dealer-has-appeal-rejected/