Originally posted by Natalie Severn
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What makes you think I am not equally disgusted with the way Colin Stagg was treated? I already acknowledged the fact that there have been many terrible miscarriages of justice in recent times, so why keep flogging this one to death now the right man - Robert Napper - is where he should be, and the many mistakes in his case have been fully admitted?
Here again it demonstrates that even as recently as the late 1990"s a man totally innocent of the crime [for which Robert Napper is now serving a life sentence] but who police -at the time -were convinced was the murderer , had attempted to frame him or "set him up"---and Stagg could have now been serving a life sentence instead of Robert Napper----and in 1962 he could have been hanged for a crime he did not commit.
In fact,it could be argued that had the wrong man not been so determinedly sought by police,however well intentioned they were in this case, the right man might have been caught earlier and Samantha Bisset and her four year old daughter who were killed later ,would still be alive
In fact,it could be argued that had the wrong man not been so determinedly sought by police,however well intentioned they were in this case, the right man might have been caught earlier and Samantha Bisset and her four year old daughter who were killed later ,would still be alive
Napper didn’t stop, did he, when it looked like Stagg was going down for his Wimbledon Common murder. And yet the A6 murderer never did commit another crime of its type. Could the explanation not be quite simple - that he couldn’t because they hanged him?
Originally posted by Natalie Severn
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Hanratty was not the equivalent of Stagg the “oddball”. He was a career criminal. If you want the 1961 “oddball” equivalent of Stagg, you need look no further than Alphon the Even Odderball. In both cases it was a matter of second time lucky: DNA eventually indicated Napper's guilt (and you are evidently 100% okay with that) and Stagg's innocence, while DNA eventually indicated Hanratty’s guilt and Alphon’s innocence. The police were forced to drop the "oddball" in each case. The only difference is that they couldn't use DNA back in 1962 to determine whether their second choice was the right one.
I will have to bone up on the Hanratty case a bit more.
Love,
Caz
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