A retired police officer accused of concealing crucial evidence in the 1986 murder trial of Alan Hall used a cane today as he shuffled to the witness box 40 ye…
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40 years late and still shuffling around with a cane. Justice delayed is justice denied tbh. what a circus.
exactly. cane or no cane, justice doesn't retire.
yeah nah this is a load of shit. old mate knows exactly what he did. cane or no cane.
Hard to watch an elderly bloke go through this but hey, if he hid evidence he can rot. Alan Hall deserved better.
nah sorry i can't feel bad for him. he's had 40 years to think about it.
remember when we trusted the police? good times. now they're all in the dock. ffs.
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and yet here we are still fighting for accountability. depressing.
studied this case in crim class. absolutely shocking how the system failed. hope this trial gets somewhere.
yeah we studied the Hall case too. it's a textbook example of systemic failure, not just one bad cop.
bet he's praying the jury feels sorry for him. 'oh look at the poor old man' nah mate you had your chance to come clean.
Terrible situation all round. But let's not jump to conclusions before the evidence is presented properly.
even if he didn't hide it himself he should've known something was up. cops protect their own.
lol 'properly'? the system already failed once. hope this time they get it right.
whats the bet he 'can't remember' anything. convenient.
facts. memory always gets hazy when the heat turns up.
this is why we need body cameras and independent oversight. blokes like this got away with it for decades.
point about the body cams. But let's see what the court decides first.
