Application for an extension of time of 27 days for the renewal of an application for a further extension of time of 4 years and 6 months within which to apply for leave to appeal against conviction for doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice, contrary to common law. It was said that the appellant had, by threats and inducement, attempted to persuade a witness to absent herself as a witness from the trial of five defendants for murder and to make a false statement to a solicitor. Other evidence had later emerged that the police themselves had evidence to undermine the safety of te witness’s evidence.
Held: The appeal was allowed, with no order for any retrial.
Pitchford LJ, Turner, Carr DBE JJ
[2014] EWCA Crim 1337
Bailii
England and Wales
Crime
Updated: 16 December 2021; Ref: scu.533800