‘I just went bent’: how Britain’s most corrupt cop ruined countless lives (www.theguardian.com)

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This is not simply a story about a horrifying miscarriage of justice. It is also a story about one of the most corrupt officers in British history and the police establishment that allowed him to thrive in his criminality and then protected him. It is about a justice system so indifferent to the fates of the men wrongfully convicted that it did nothing to clear their names for almost 47 years.

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[-] Subtlysubtle@sffa.community 5 points 10 months ago

Wild. All these people had their lives ruined because of those officers. Had to live the rest of their lives in fear and burdened by a false conviction. I can't imagine going through that.

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