Simon Hall’s wife plea to Attorney General

provided by: Mrs Stephanie Hall
25th August 2011

4WardEver UK have reproduced (in-part) a letter sent by Stephanie Hall, The wife of Simon Hall, to the UK Attorney General.

Convicted of the murder of Joan Albert in 2003, Simon has been in jail since 2002. He has always protested his innocence. In a statement on his website dated March 2005 he writes: “If you were one of the 11 in the jury who convicted me and sent me to prison… You’re a bloody idiot! “I’m entitled to say that and probably a lot more besides, but I won’t because it’s too late after all and nothing can be done immediately to change the fact”.
Read the profile of his case here >

Stephanie’s Letter:
Monday 22nd August 2011

Dear Sir/Madam,

Complaint re: Crown Prosecution Service.

I am writing to you with regards the case against my husband Simon Hall (A767 8AC).

Simon was convicted of a crime he knew nothing about over 9 years ago and is currently serving a life sentence.

Simon’s case was featured on the last ever BBC Rough Justice documentary ‘The Innocents Brief’ in 2007.

During the documentary Mr Keir Starmer QC was interviewed about Simon’s case and made several comments including;

‘Simon Hall’s case is really peculiar because there’s no particular reason to suspect he’s guilty of this offence, there are lots and lots of question marks about his possible involvement but there’s this one crucial link which is the fibre evidence and that’s what holds the whole case together. It’s a very odd case; it’s circumstantial, break that central piece of evidence and the case falls apart completely.’

View film clip >

In January 2011 the Appeal Court Judges upheld Simon’s conviction, following his case being referred by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).

It had been shown, by the textile expert for the defence that the fibres never matched. When the Judges refused to order a re-trial the textile expert, Mr Tiernan Coyle wrote to the Appeal Court Judges and copied his letter to the Forensic Regulator, Mr Andrew Rennison.

Please find a link to the letter >

Mr Coyle has clearly stated in his letter that he believes a Miscarriage of Justice has occurred yet if would appear nothing has been done about this.

I am fully versed on how the appeals system in this country works and know that Simon will need to put in another application to the CCRC, however when the CCRC referred Simon’s case in October 2009 there were many other areas that they had not had time to investigate further, even though his case had been with them for approximately 4 and ½ years.

Download the letter in full here >

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