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Covid-19 isnt going to stop the Dean of St Annes from completing the traditional Black Santa vigil on the steps of the cathedral in the heart of Belfast. And yesterday morning the Very Rev Stephen Forde took up residence for the annual charity campaign which will continue until Christmas Eve. Dean Forde is Belfasts fifth Black Santa - the tradition was started by Dean Sammy Crooks in 1976 and maintained by deans Jack Shearer, Houston McKelvey and John Mann. This year is particularly challenging...

Rising tide of resistance Oversubscribed and eager to fight. Clive Dean of Labour Party Marxists reports on a successful launch Promoted by Labour Against the Witchhunt and Labour Left Alliance, the newly formed Campaign for Free Speech held an online launch rally on Saturday December 12. It was oversubscribed on Zoom and hundreds more watched the live stream on Facebook. So the organisers will certainly be pleased by the attendance. With 14 speakers packed into four hours it was a very busy ev...

Shares Western Primary School is tackling a risk to their pupils from an increasingly busy main vehicle route on its door step. The school is on Cold Bath road, a road that is becoming more congested, like many areas of Harrogate. Congestion peaks at around 8:30am to 9:00am, then again at from 3:00pm until 3:45pm. Much of the traffic is cars, but it also a route for school buses, the local bus service and a wide range of commercial vehicles. The problem The volume of cars, delivery vehicles and...

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Refused. >> this case doesnt turn on dna. there was an overwhelming amount of evidence. i could have salted him away without any dna evidence at the trial. >> john mann made his decision that night when he went to the murder scene. he had already made statements to the media that im the one who done it. >> theyre not going to stop, oops, we made a mistake, its not hank. >> they wanted to get me out of the way, and they did. >> mann argued that skinners original defense attorney had known about t...

Going to have to let you go. >> one month after the nancy grace show john mann changed his mind about the dna. >> he decided on his own to do some dna testing but he did it without the involvement of the defense. he boxed up some items and sent them off for testing and told the lab what to test. >> the first items mann sent for testing included a set of human hairs found in twilas hands. >> and the mitochondrial dna on those hairs comes back to twila busbys mitochondrial line. >> this meant the ...

Outlet wanted it. nancy grace invited us on for an interview. >> welcome to pros and cons, david protest, professor, i know blood spatter evidence. how could this guy have gotten blood spatters on his shirt if he wasnt there when the crime was committed? >> he doesnt deny being there. he was unconscious, toxicology reports confirm this. my students conducted interviews who suggest strongly that twila busbys uncle could have been the killer. >> he was completely checked out. youre taunting skinne...

This jacket, sweat stains, bloodstains on this jacket. it was a veritable cornucopia of possible dna testing. >> owen believed he had strong grounds for appeal because the state had failed to test the windbreaker, and other key evidence. >> in the living room there is a black plastic garbage bag. and inside that garbage bag there were found a knife and a hand towel and they didnt test either of those items. theres a second knife, which was found on the porch of the house and this i think now we ...

Didnt do it? >> it is just mind boggling that evidence preserved from the crime scene, including a male jacket and the murder weapons to this day is not tested. >> curious why hanks attorney harold comer hadnt tested key evidence sandrin traveled to pampa. >> he was a former prosecutor who had prosecuted hank twice. there were leads in testing he should have pursued. theres a bloody hand print on the trash bag where the knife is found with the kitchen towel. its not hanks print. whose is it? >> ...

Sometimes a piece of evidence is mislaid in an evidence room, in a locker, or it gets lost during transport to the court, but its a human system and you have expect that sometimes mistakes will happen. >> there is no reason why an object as large as a mans windbreaker jacket should just disappear. and even in this case the state managed to maintain the custody of items as small as fingernail clippings, and yet somehow they lost this jacket they say. in 2005 john mann testified and i had the oppo...