Defence Calls Witness To Discredit My Evidence

My Solicitor was instructed to take a statement from a Mr Hamilton from Barlanark Glasgow who lived above my house at 31 Barlanark Place.

He did not bother to interview this witness (But Cited him) so my wife asked Mr Hamilton if he could recall seeing me on the day i was supposed to have committed this Robbery 12/12/1981 to which Mr Hamilton said he did recall seeing me.

Some time passed and my wife again spoke to Mr Hamilton at his van.

This time he informed her: That the police had been out and interviewed him regarding seeing me on 12/12/1981 and he told my wife this: The police have said if i go to court as a witness for wullie then the police have said they will Fuc- up my Criminal Injuries claim.

This Man was cited by my defence team specifically to ask him about what the police had said to him.

In evidence this man was allowed to say he never saw me on the date in question at his van without any redress from my defence team.

For instance he was never asked if the police had spoken to him never mind threaten him with his criminal injuries.

At the very least he should have been asked exactly what he had said to my wife.

The reason why this was never done was because my defence team did not want to be seen to be calling the police liars.

SCCRC have now ascertained that Mr Hamilton did indeed have a claim in to CICB at the time she said he told her. (This backs what my wife has always said) and the only way she would have known if he had a criminal injuries claim in would have been because he told her about it, as she said he did.

Why my defence team never asked Hamilton about his criminal injuries claim and what the police had said to him is beyond me.

Why they called this man to allow him to discredit my evidence without at least making some challenge on him is beyond belief