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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.
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
