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Don’t believe your eyes

Don’t believe your eyes

Or anybody else’s, especially in court

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Joshua Rozenberg
Feb 23, 2021
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A 37-year-old man who was convicted of indecently assaulting two women nearly 20 years ago has had his convictions quashed after a new analysis of DNA evidence pointed to the guilt of another man.

As the barrister Matthew Scott said on Twitter, it’s a case that demonstrates, yet again, the unreliability of eye-witness evidence:

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