Barlow still guilty
Convicted double murderer John Barlow has lost his final bid to have his convictions overturned, as the Privy Council in London ruled against his appeal today. The five law lords that heard Barlow’s appeal tonight announced that while he had an arguable case, on the evidence he was properly convicted by the jury.
“The Board accordingly concludes…that, while the introduction of the misleading evidence…was indeed a miscarriage, no substantial miscarriage of justice actually occured,” the judgement said.
In other words, there was lots of other evidence.