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[Sandra Lean]

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28/01/2010 17:24:04 Following today’s very sad news of the death of Gordon Park, I would first of all offer my most sincere condolences to Gordon’s family. I know the strength, courage and determination that have gone into the fight to clear Gordon’s name, and the absolute resolution that Gordon would be shown to be what he really was, and is – an innocent man.

That Gordon was convicted on such flimsy evidence in the first place was bad enough. But for the appeal court to dismiss the appeal when the “evidence” which had been “central” to the original case was completely discredited is disgraceful.

Responsibility for Gordon’s death is firmly at the feet of those who pursued this travesty so relentlessly, with no regard for truth or justice. A portion of that responsibility also lies with Glenn Banks and Michael Wainwright, whose testimony that Gordon had “confessed” was so obviously untrue. Whatever the incitement or reward for doing what they did, today, they must consider that the price was the life of an innocent man.

Gordon Park will not be forgotten. Nor will what was done to him in the name of “justice.”

[John Lamberton]

I take it the fight goes on albeit too late for Gordon > ??

[admin]

Very much so John, but sadly as you say, too late for Gordon himself.

[John Lamberton]

I just wondered Billy because of what happened with my aunt after she passed on. She was about to sue the Bank of Scotland for failing to provide funds for her under her late husband's trust deed. I was told by a lawyer whom I had engaged on her behalf that as she had died there was no way an action could be taken forward. I still wonder about that because such did have a direct effect on my own prosecution??

[admin]

I'm afraid thats out with my area, presumably it would very much depend on the T&C of the trust deed etc. I'd be happy to look into it for you when I get a chance and will message you privately but I do think it may be worth getting a second opinion from someone specialising in that area.

[John Lamberton]

I'm afraid thats out with my area, presumably it would very much depend on the T&C of the trust deed etc. I'd be happy to look into it for you when I get a chance and will message you privately but I do think it may be worth getting a second opinion from someone specialising in that area.

Thanks Billy...there was nothing specific in the deed which related to the period after my aunts death. I was her Attorney before her death and Executor & Trustee after death. I personally thought that as such I could have continued the fight on her behalf. They wouldn't advance her a penny, this was off-course payback for taking her own portfolio away from them.  They had no difficulty however some 6 months after her death when they issued a cheque for £405,000 payable from the Trust to the Inland Revenue.  When I think of what they did it makes my blood boil !!

This is off-course why they (Bank of Scotland) couldn't do enough to damage me! 

Sorry for writing this on Gordon's thread, maybe I should have my own in time.

[John Lamberton]

I have always wondered about this case and the allegations that he admitted the murder to fellow inmates. I have also wondered why someone would say that their wife had left for another man and didn't wish to be contacted. Did she really wish to lose contact with her three children??

Maybe he didn't say any of this, I for one should know the lies that the police and the prosecution can conger up.  Does anyone know what were the main points in the failed appeal??

[Sandra Lean]

In the 1970s, Gordon was awarded sole custody of his children following a previous desertion by his wife. He didn't say she wanted no contact with them, it was the social services who awarded Gordon sole custody in the absence of the children's mother.

The "confession" is an absolute joke. Three different stories, all used as "evidence" of a confession. One prisoner said Gordon had told him he had come home and gone upstairs to find his wife in bed with another man and had killed her in a "jealous rage." The Parks house was a bungalow - there was no upstairs. Also, there were three children in the house at the time of this alleged "jealous rage." The Crown said that Gordon had not gone to Blackpool that day, as he claimed - they said he just made that up to cover his tracks. But if he had not gone out, how did he then manage to "come home?"

The other prisoner was described as easily influenced. First, he said Gordon had given his wife some "white powder" on his boat after which she "fell overboard." Later, he changed his story to say that Gordon had killed his wife on the boat.

Both men came forward after a documentary was aired, in which it was broadcast that there was a ?5000 reward for any information which would lead to the killer of Carol Park.

Gordon's son Jeremy clearly remembers that morning - the whole family were supposed to go to Blackpool, but his mother called off, saying she was unwell. When they came back, she was gone - that morning in the bedroom was the last time he saw his mother.

It wasn't, however, the last time anyone else saw her. She was seen by neighbours later in the day "hanging around" on the driveway, and later she was seen in a service station. There was also a strange car parked on the driveway for about 20 minutes that day - it was never traced.

Like Nick Rose's case, the victim was seen alive after the time she was supposed to have been murdered. In Nick's case, the appeal court came to the conclusion that more than half a dozen witnesses had all got the date wrong, and had seen the victim the previous week!!

[John Lamberton]

I sometimes wonder what planet these judges are really on??

[Sandra Lean]

The judges in John Taft's case must surely take the biscuit,

The prosecution story was that John murdered Cynthia Bolshaw,leaving fibres from his clothes on her bed covers,  stole some jewellery to make it look like a burglary gone wrong, drove her car several miles away, leaving the same fibres from his trousers on the driving seat,  dumped it then walked home, and burned his clothes in the back garden before burying the ashes/fire remains.

Enter John's neighbours who heard him "digging  a hole" in his back garden - aha! the proof they needed to prove their story.

Problem. At the time the neighbours heard him "digging a hole" the car was still on the victim's driveway. (It was also, incidentally before the time the prosecution claimed she was murdered).

The judge at trial, and the panel of appeal judges all claimed that he must have returned to drive the car away after the "hole digging" incident. Spot the obvious mistake. How did the same fibres that were on the bedclothes come to be on the driver's seat if he had returned home, burned his clothes, and then returned to the scene to drive the car away??

Incidentally, the "digging a hole" story is nonsense, but that's another thing entirely

Like Simon Hall, John's case rested on fibre evidence, and his case too is being re-examined as a result of the fibre evidence being flawed.

[John Lamberton]

I despair sometimes...you couldn't make it up if you tried!!

I also sometimes wonder how these prosecutors live with themselves, it must take a right type of b*****d to do what they do to people??

[Sandra Lean]

I agree, John.

In both Simon Hall and John Taft's case, the judge introduced "information" which had not been raised during the trial (novel inference) - in Simon's case, the loud crashing sounds at 2am (which actually fit with a far more credible time of death on the other evidece) were explained away by the judge as possibly made by "clumsy cats." Nowhere in the trial were clumsy cats mentioned - the judge thought that one up all by herself.

In John's case, it was the "must have gone away and come back to drive the car away" suggestion. That all of the evidence made this an impossible sequence of events was apparently of no concern to the judge!

[John Lamberton]

How do they get away with it. A trial isn't interested in a judge's surmising as to what could have occurred. It is cold hard evidence that we are concerned about.

I think the judicial system in this country and I mean the UK as a whole,  needs a good kick up the backside! (sorry about the pun)

I really feel for Gordon now that I know some of the facts, he raised those three kids and then look what they did to him and all because of a meandering wife!  It is really so so sad how it all ended and especially so for the children who have now lost both parents to such sad circumstances.

How did you find Gordon when you met him?

[Sandra Lean]

I never met Gordon personally, although we did exchange letters. I met his wife, son and daughter in law though - a really lovely family, so terribly sad.

[Stephanie Hall]

I think the judicial system in this country and I mean the UK as a whole,  needs a good kick up the backside! (sorry about the pun)

John I want to start a petition to number 10 to get things moving on this exact issue. It can't go on any longer! Too many innocent men & women are in our prisons whilst the real culprits walk free.
So many are being wrongly accused even though the evidence points away from them. The media, in my opinion of course are not helping in any of this...
I know thousands that will sign said petition and I also know many of these will act on it and come to 10 downing street......
I wondered if you had any suggestions?
I was hoping this petition could be "generic" in order to help bring everyone together and to cover the vast issues we are all faced with.

Please find a link to number 10's petition site to give you some idea of what others have done.
Any suggestions are welcome...

Gordan Park & his family deserve justice, as do all the many other thousands wrongly accused and locked up and their families!

In the first instance, the victims and their families should not be allowed to have to suffer like they do.

Should I start up a new thread?

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/list/open?cat=564