Murder of Billy
Jo Jenkins BBC
Link 
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Danilo Restivo was found guilty on 30th June 2011 of murdering Heather Barnett. He is now implicated in the murder of Jong Ok-Shin, for which Mr Benguit is serving a sentence of life imprisonment. The Guardian News Story
R v Simon John Hall Murder of Joan Albert. Appeal dismissed on 14th Jan 2011 following a referral from the Criminal Cases Review Commission. The appeal illustrates the scientific approach to investigating the composition of fibres which were found in the victim's flat and also allegedly in the appellant's wardrobe at his home.
R V Jenkins Murder of Billy
Jo Jenkins BBC
Link
Trial and conviction: 2nd July 1998. | Appeal Dismissed 21st December 1999. | Referral by the CCRC May 2003 Appeal Allowed July 2004. | 1st Retrial ordered for April 2005 - The jury failed to reach a verdict. | 2nd Retrial ordered. - The jury failed to reach a verdict on 9th February 2006.
R V Cains Murder of Colin Hickman Appeal Dismissed
R V Jones (Jonathan)
Murder of Harry and Megan Tooze
Appeal Allowed BBC Link
Editor's Note: See the likely connection with
the convicted Welsh double-shotgun murderer John Cooper http://www.digitalhen.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13626732
R V Fell Murder Appeal Allowed
R V Bowler (Sheila) Murder Appeal Allowed - 1st retrial ordered | Defendant acquitted
R V Stone (Michael) Murder 1st Appeal Allowed - 1st retrial ordered | Defendant convicted. | 2nd Appeal dismissed. Guardian newspaper article of re-trial
R V Taft (John) Murder Leave to Appeal Refused 'Beauty in the Bath' murder
R V Gilfoyle (Eddie) Murder of his wife Appeal Dismissed
R V Rowe, Raphael and
Johnson ('M25 Three') Murder Appeal
Allowed
"For the better
understanding of those who have listened to this judgement, and of those who may report it
hereafter, this is not a finding of innocence, far from it." ..........Lord Justice
Mantell.
R V Cole (Kevin Samuel) Murder Appeal Dismissed
R V Clark (Sally) Murder of her
two babies 1st
Appeal Dismissed | Facts about 'Cot Death' or Suden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS): See also this link.
2nd Appeal allowed. 20th January 2004 - Lord
Justice Judge, deputy Lord Chief Justice, raised the “abhorrent” prospect that
mothers may have been wrongly jailed for killing their babies. The judge, sitting
with Mrs Justice Rafferty and Mr Justice Pitchers, said: “Unless we are sure of
guilt, the dreadful possibility always remains that a mother, already brutally scarred by
the unexplained deaths of her babies, may find herself in prison for life for killing them
when she should not be there at all. In our community, and in any civilised community,
that is abhorrent.”
R V Anthony (Donna) Murder of her two babies Appeal Dismissed 29/6/00
R V O'Brien (The Cardiff Three) Murder Appeal Allowed 25/1/00 Confession admitting guilt ruled as unreliable.
R V Jeremy Bamber An investigative reporter Bob Woffenden has written two accounts of this crime - one advocating innocence, the other guilt:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-507801/the-lost-clues-clear-bambi-killer-gunning-family.html
I was wrong about Bambi killer, says crime writer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387438/I-wrong-Jeremy-Bamber-says-crime-writer.html