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Judge Brian Curtin – another appalling vista.
This could also be titled ‘the story that no-one wants to hear’. Twenty-six years ago in 1980, there was a British and Irish case that was a potential warning to us all of what a miscarriage of justice can arise when the truth presents an ‘appalling vista’ that cannot be considered.
Lord Denning, in dismissing the 1980 civil action against the police brought by the Birmingham Six, said “If the six men win, it will mean that the police were guilty of perjury, that they were guilty of violence and threats, that the confessions were involuntary and were improperly admitted as evidence, and that the convictions were erroneous - - -. This is such an appalling vista that every sensible person in the country would say: it cannot be right these actions go any further.”
Despite this attempt at the highest level to prevent the appalling vista of the truth emerging, the cases against the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six unravelled and collapsed and the men were freed after spending up to sixteen years in prison.
We are now facing another appalling vista, so well illustrated in the Irish Judge Brian Curtin case when on Monday 13 November 2006 the Irish parliamentary committee (known as an Oireachtas committee) set up to investigate him for the alleged possession of child pornography collapsed.
The whole thrust of the committee, which together with the Curtin case cost the country millions, was to impeach him and stop him receiving costs and a pension. On Monday 13 November 2006, the day the committee was beginning two weeks of its final hearings with 18 witnesses standing by, Brian Curtin resigned, together with his pension and costs, and the committee announced that it was all over, because he had resigned.
There were solemn news announcements and reports and equally solemn panel discussions but no one appears to have asked how a committee could have spent so much time and money in the knowledge that a simple resignation on a certain date would render all its work useless. The question was not asked because the answer would have ushered in the appalling vista that there was another story that no-one wanted to hear. It is a story not just about Brian Curtin, but all the other casualties of the terrible injustice of Operation Ore in the UK and Operation Amethyst in Ireland.
What the Curtin committee did not reveal was that they were aware that new evidence was about to be presented by the Curtin defence team that they had acquired from the UK Operation Ore action group which was mounting a class action against the British police for its handling of Operation Ore, and that the same evidence, which if used successfully against Ore would also undermine Operation Amethyst under which Curtin had been persecuted. They did not reveal that they were being presented with specific evidence relating to the Curtin case, nor did they reveal that the spokesperson for the class action, who lives in Ireland, had already attempted to get this evidence to the committee chairman.
To demonstrate the extent of the appalling vista that society now tries to push away in the Curtin case, simply consider this. All during the recent months of this high profile case, several web sites immediately available through the search engines and some major UK newspapers and broadcasts had revealed that both new evidence had been secured and a class action was underway. The most cursory reading of these reports would reveal the dramatic fact that the Operation Ore action group had gotten hold of the never before seen by the defence Landslide subscriber database, which was the basis for the dawn raids of all those ruined under Ore and Amethyst. For the first time the class action researchers and individual defence teams were seeing exactly what the database said about each individual transaction that led to the raids and prosecutions.
Incredibly, not a single journalist asked the following questions. Is Brian Curtin’s alleged transaction there on the database and what does it reveal? Have he and his committee been in touch with the UK Operation Ore and class action team who now have this evidence? If they have, will this now be presented in his defence? What does this new evidence actually say about him and Amethyst and the whole Landslide tragedy?
Why were these questions not being asked and why are they still not being asked? Because they may reveal the appalling vista that no-one wants to be presented with – that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice carried out in the UK and Ireland under Operation Ore and Operation Amethyst.
We are seeking the permission of Brian Curtin and his legal team to publish the full facts in his case. If like so many other casualties of this terrible injustice they want to put it behind them, we have others who are taking their cases into the courts, so this truth will not be stopped from coming out.
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Judge Brian Curtin – another appalling vista.
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