Just to straighten things a bit regarding the two hairs.First they were bleached blond, one was 6 inches long 150mm, the other 8 inches 200mm. In previous searches of the hairs and tiger skin blanket, the longest hairs found were 3 inches 75mm. 11 were chosen including both brown and yellow blond hairs for DNA testing, none of which returned a positive result from the DNA test.
The only DNA test that tied the hairs to Olivia was the $70,000 mitochondrial(mDNA) tests done in the UK but it only proved the hair came from one or other of the two girls no more. The nuclear DNA testing was useless and in spite of some junk science, the multiplying of two totally separate tests both with out reagents to confirm results meant the hairs could have come from Amelia or Olivia or any other person sharing the same mDNA.
The other test done, one of the hairs was microscopic comparison where the scientist would claim that hairs matched the sample hairs from the Hope home. Again, this is now totally discredited as DNA has resulted in exoneration's where hair comparison was a major factor in the conviction.
Tests done by the NAS for the US Dept of Justice revealed that the "experts" could not even reliably match two halves of the same hair, and could match hairs from totally unrelated people from different parts of the Country. Microscopic comparison can identify between races and parts of body hair, but head hairs vary depending on the part of the head they are from.
I borrowed the fore-going. I'm sure if it is not provable somebody will provide evidence that it isn't. It clearly demonstrates the 'golden bullet' evidence in this case, something that turns up in favour of the prosecution and which was somehow miraculously missed in an earlier 'meticulous' search. This evidence launches the conviction of Scott Watson into the realms of similar unsound convictions:
Arthur Thomas, the cartridge case discovered on a subsequent second search and which unfortunately for the police had not been even manufactured at the time of the murders of Jeanette and Harvey Crewe.
David Bain, a lens found days after a meticulous search of a small room, discovered after hours by an officer not tasked with the job. A lens said to have fallen in the room of his murdered brother on the morning of his death, but which however was covered in dust and belonged to an old set of glasses owned by Margaret Bain, the frames for which it was 'reported,' 15 years later by a detective at David's retrial, that David asked to be passed to him on the morning on the murders, glasses which had no lens. From memory this officer said he hadn't reported this important information earlier because he didn't want to be criticised for handling evidence in a homicide scene.
David Dougherty, the unfortunate fellow convicted of rape using in part dna evidence that under later analysis was found not to be his but a match for another man since convicted of the crime.
Amanda knox, the American woman who stands convicted on a chorus of conflicting evidence from a number of bizarre sources difficult to take altogether seriously, a convicted sexo of some type - whose evidence was recanted, a mafia member who claims the real killer is his brother, another man convicted of the killing but who now points the finger at Amanda. Though the majority of the 'case' is prejudicial weaving, allegations of sex games that went wrong, sympathy and defence for the young British woman killed (on the basis that she was undeserving of death it follows therefore that Knox should be convicted despite vast gaps in the narrative.) And golden bullet dna, found 6 weeks after initial searches in two places, a knife said to be used in the killing and on a bra clip. The court ordered further analysis of this evidence as part of the appeal process and the independent forensic scientists said the findings (said to Knox's dna) were too 'unreliable' to be be relied upon.
So Scott unfortunately has the similar weakness of the evidence against him, the yawning gaps in the narrative of the Crown case against him, bolstered by golden bullet evidence, which, in itself, as shown above, appears may have come from the sister of Olivia (and therefore been planted there between the 2 meticulous searches,) and whose hair matched in colour the same bleach evidenced on the samples recovered after the blanket on which they had been found had already been examined. Evidence, which in any event, was unreliable not only for it's lack of scientific clarity of connection to Olivia, and therefore Scott, but most importantly because it escaped attention and only 'arrived' when it was absolutely needed. When a conviction is held on absolutely 'needed' evidence that arrives on cue the Justice system is mocked, and when it continues to sustain no objection to that mocking or common sense, indeed observation of common sense on which 'reasonable doubt' is tested, then the Courts have become complicit in the mocking and then the whole country, and not just a single man falsely imprisoned, is mocked.
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