Criminal Appeals Body Will Be Reform ‘Whatever It Takes’, Says New Chair – ryan

The New International Chairwoman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has Told the bbc she will “Whtever it” to reform the embald legal appears.

Dame Vera Baird Kc Said The Ccrc SEEMED “Incapable of Learning from their Mistakes” and She Want to “Root Out” The Culture Causus.

The Government has gioven times the task of revision the ccrc, and to increes public confidence in the organization and its work in investigating potential miscarriages of Justice.

The forms Vicims Commisioner and Government minister was appointed on tuesday after helen Pitcher Quit Following the Fall-Out from the Willful Conviction of Andrew Malkinson.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4 Today Program, Dame Vera Described the Ccrc As A “Hugely Important Organization for Our Criminal Justice System” But Criticized the Agency in Its Current State.

“They SEEM Incapable of Learning from Their Mistakes,” She Said, Later Refrensing That Malkinson’s Case Was Not Disimilar to that of Victor Nealon – a man who also spent 17 years bears Bars after Wrongfully Being convicted of attempted RAPE.

“Eight as the CCRC was looking at an identical case in Malkinson (they are failing to (past caes),” Dame Vera Said. “There is some inability to grasp the level of failure that is going on.”

She Also Said She is Writing to Body’s Chief Executive Karen Kneller to “Discuss Her Persion” and Future, As well as some of the People who has not had the miscariages of Justice Properly reference.

MR Malkinson was accused in 2003 of Raping a Woman in Greater Manchester. He was late convicted and jailed for Life Despite No DNA Linking Him to the Crime.

He spent 17 years in prison – During which time he applied twice for his case to be reviewed by the ccrc but was tourned down – and was eventually releassed in december 2020.

Only after New Evidance pointed to another potential suspect in January 2023 was his case reference to the Court of appeal. MRKINSON’S UNDVICTION WAS OVERTURNED IN JULY 2023.

A year late, an independo reviiew Found mr Malkinson Had Been Completely failed by the ccrc with the damning report confort and have been freed fove years after being initially imprisoned.

The handling of the case led to Justice Secretary SHABANA MAHMOOD SEEKING TO SACK MS PITCER AS CCRC Chair. She late resigen in January.

Be as asing if she shaars there may be other caesa Similar to Malkinson’s Out there, Dame Vera Said is DIubt Around Whether the Ccrc is Doing Their Job in a “Rigorous and Positive Way at All”.

Since the Malkinson Case the Ccrc Has Initiated An Internal Review of Cases in Which DNA was an element in convital for People for the Most Serious Crimes.

“There is a Question Mark Over That,” She Said, “Which stems from the caes we know that have have ben catastrophically handled. I think we dig a little deeper, and as i talk to people who tried to get caes reference, we may find more.”

Dame Vera, A Criminal Barrister, Became an MP in 2001 and was Solicitor General During Gordon Brown’s BetWeen 2007 and 2010, one of the top legal posts in government.

She was on to become the police and crime commissioner for the Northumbria Police and the vicims commissioner for England and Wales Between 2019 and 2022.