Friday, 6 January 2012
Hospital Serial Killer: A Jury in the Dark - Inside Time Newspaper
Hospital Serial Killer: A Jury in the Dark - Inside Time Newspaper
Love and light from the wee rusty tin can here in the Scottish highlands............ Alba gu brath
Love and light from the wee rusty tin can here in the Scottish highlands............ Alba gu brath
Monday, 10 October 2011
http://www.freecolinnorris.co.uk/words-from-his-mother.php
http://www.freecolinnorris.co.uk/words-from-his-mother.php
Colin has spent 3 years in jail for a series of murders he did not commit. In 2008 he was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years for poisoning elderly patients with insulin whilst working as a nurse in Leeds. The BBC TV documentary about Colin’s case was transmitted on BBC 1 the first week in October 2011. The programme revealed new expert evidence which we hope will get the case back to the Court of Appeal in England. The programme was called “Hospital Serial Killer: A Jury in the Dark.”
Colin has spent 3 years in jail for a series of murders he did not commit. In 2008 he was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years for poisoning elderly patients with insulin whilst working as a nurse in Leeds. The BBC TV documentary about Colin’s case was transmitted on BBC 1 the first week in October 2011. The programme revealed new expert evidence which we hope will get the case back to the Court of Appeal in England. The programme was called “Hospital Serial Killer: A Jury in the Dark.”
It is a complicated case so I won’t go into too much detail here but lawyers and experts told the programme “the entire case was built on a foundation which is unsound” and described the new evidence as “extremely powerful indeed.” Before this, Colin had never been in trouble with the police. He is a decent, hard working, caring individual and I am proud of him as my son. Friends and nursing colleagues showed him overwhelming support throughout the trial despite the horrendous nature of the allegations but unless his conviction is quashed his first chance of parole will be in the year 2038 when he’ll be 62.
We are trying to find a public figure who is prepared to learn more about Colin’s case. A not-for-profit organisation Inside Justice which investigates alleged miscarriages of justice has worked extensively on the case. They are able to provide short summaries and information about the case if someone has the time and inclination to learn more. The BBC reporter who has been investigating the case would be happy to talk about what he knows of the case having spent the past few months investigating it.
It is so hard to put right a wrongful conviction and we need help in keeping a public spotlight on Colin’s case. All support is greatly appreciated.
Sunday, 9 October 2011
'Angel of Death' murderer Colin Norris could be cleared after new research - Telegraph
'Angel of Death' murderer Colin Norris could be cleared after new research - Telegraph
Glasgow-born nurse Colin Norris was found guilty in March 2008 of murdering four elderly patients while he worked at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) and the city's St James's Hospital in 2002.
He was jailed for at least 30 years.
A doctor alerted the authorities after noticing that one of the four people who died had suddenly and unexpectedly slipped into a hypoglycaemic coma from which she later died.
Norris's trial at Newcastle Crown Court was told that Ethel Hall, 86, who was not diabetic, had been injected with a massive and fatal dose of insulin, which reduced the sugar content in her blood to a level where her brain became starved of the glucose it needed to function properly.
Tests revealed insulin levels 12 times the norm, the court heard.
Norris has always protested his innocence and denied injecting patients with insulin.
But Professor Vincent Marks, an insulin expert, has told the BBC that research he carried out showed hypoglycaemic episodes, where people slipped into comas, were not ''that rare'' among elderly patients in hospitals.
Norris's mother, June Morrison, told BBC Radio Scotland today that she always believed her son was innocent of the murders.
She said: ''It's very good to hear that this new evidence is going to be presented.
''When we asked Professor Marks to do the report, we didn't know what the results were going to be, and when he did come back with this, it was very, very helpful to us.''
Asked what the last four years had been like for her and the family, she said: ''It's been like a nightmare, you're in a bad dream.
''You just don't believe it is real, but it is real. It's been horrendous, dreadful.''
She said Norris had his own ''coping mechanism'' in prison and he was ''coping''.
''I can't help him inside the prison, I can do as much as I possibly can out here,'' she added.
Ms Morrison also said she believed juries should not be allowed to convict someone if there any members of the panel had doubts and it was ''totally wrong'' that jurors could convict someone on circumstantial evidence.
She continued: ''We take the new evidence back to the CCRC (Criminal Cases Review Commission) and they will read the fresh evidence and the advice. We put an advice in as well, explaining where we got the new evidence from, how it was brought about.
''They will then decide if it goes back to the Court of Appeal and then the three judges at the Court of Appeal will decide if it's strong enough for a re-trial or an acquittal.''
Prof Marks was interviewed for the programme BBC Scotland Investigates: Hospital Serial Killer - A Jury In The Dark, which will be broadcast tonight at 10.35pm on BBC One Scotland.
He told the programme his research had found that, in some cases, up to 10 per cent of elderly sick in hospital suffer hypoglycaemic episodes.
Prof Marks undertook a forensic analysis of new international medical studies carried out since 2008 which, he says, disproves the belief that a cluster of hypoglycaemic comas in non-diabetics is ''rare''.
But Professor Vincent Marks, an insulin expert, has told the BBC that research he carried out showed hypoglycaemic episodes, where people slipped into comas, were not ''that rare'' among elderly patients in hospitals.
Norris's mother, June Morrison, told BBC Radio Scotland today that she always believed her son was innocent of the murders.
She said: ''It's very good to hear that this new evidence is going to be presented.
''When we asked Professor Marks to do the report, we didn't know what the results were going to be, and when he did come back with this, it was very, very helpful to us.''
Asked what the last four years had been like for her and the family, she said: ''It's been like a nightmare, you're in a bad dream.
''You just don't believe it is real, but it is real. It's been horrendous, dreadful.''
She said Norris had his own ''coping mechanism'' in prison and he was ''coping''.
''I can't help him inside the prison, I can do as much as I possibly can out here,'' she added.
Ms Morrison also said she believed juries should not be allowed to convict someone if there any members of the panel had doubts and it was ''totally wrong'' that jurors could convict someone on circumstantial evidence.
She continued: ''We take the new evidence back to the CCRC (Criminal Cases Review Commission) and they will read the fresh evidence and the advice. We put an advice in as well, explaining where we got the new evidence from, how it was brought about.
''They will then decide if it goes back to the Court of Appeal and then the three judges at the Court of Appeal will decide if it's strong enough for a re-trial or an acquittal.''
Prof Marks was interviewed for the programme BBC Scotland Investigates: Hospital Serial Killer - A Jury In The Dark, which will be broadcast tonight at 10.35pm on BBC One Scotland.
He told the programme his research had found that, in some cases, up to 10 per cent of elderly sick in hospital suffer hypoglycaemic episodes.
Prof Marks undertook a forensic analysis of new international medical studies carried out since 2008 which, he says, disproves the belief that a cluster of hypoglycaemic comas in non-diabetics is ''rare''.
BBC News - Colin Norris convictions 'unsafe'
BBC News - Colin Norris convictions 'unsafe'
Love and light from the wee rusty tin can here in the Scottish highlands............ Alba gu brath
Love and light from the wee rusty tin can here in the Scottish highlands............ Alba gu brath
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