Gene Hunt
Midfield
It has a lot of similarities to the Staircase investigation in that the Police decided very early on who was responsible and concentrated on making the evidence fit. It just shows how much damage a poor investigation and one sided prosecution can do to a case, the waters are muddied, evidence is tainted and what could have been a straight forward case drags on for decades.One of the problems with so much time passing since the murders, is that the once clear lines become blurred.
New investigations, new guesses at what happened and dramatised TV shows all combine to put doubt out there. The guilty then become innocent and the innocent look guilty. All it needs is one source to cast doubt on the conviction. Be it a journalist, a TV producer or someone involved in the original investigation.
Suddenly we are asking, did he really do it? Then more amateur investigators jump on the bandwagon to smear the police, the witnesses and the courts. Easy to do decades after the trial. Unless there is concrete evidence it needs to stop.