The case of Stefan Kiszko casts a dark shadow over British justice.
Totally unconnected to the murder of which he was convicted - that
of a young girl Lesley Molseed - he spent 16 years in prison
tormented as a sex-offender and suffering from what one expert
described as `delusions of innocence'. As author Michael O'Connell
explains, it was in fact the system by which he was ensnared which
was suffering from `delusions of guilt'. Kiszko could not have been
Lesley's attacker as subsequently established by DNA and the
medical fact that he could not produce sperm. But a false
confession written for him by a corrupt police officer set in train
proceedings from which he was never to recover, dying only a short
time after his eventual release. In this book, Michael O'Connell
investigates every small detail of the case with especial reference
to the foibles of the lawyers, investigators and scientists
involved, all of whom either missed or ignored the signs that
should have pointed to an early discharge from a misguided
prosecution. The book includes the participation of a prosecutor
who went on to become Lord Chief Justice and a leading defence
barrister who became Home Secretary before his elevation to the
House of Lords. Everyone seems to have become caught up in the
momentum originally fuelled by policing methods that are hopefully
now long gone.
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