Seems that the local boys and girls in blue seem to find the word sorry somewhat difficult to say, or rather it seems to be a hard word for one of their bosses to say.
Even after paying out 500,000 in an out of court settlement they still wont apologise to Michael O'Brien and Ellis Sherwood who were wrongly convicted of the murder of Cardiff newsagent Phillip Saunders.
The conviction which was overturned in 1999, after which they had spent 11 years in prison, a case where the Criminal Cases Review Commission stated that there had been a "systematic disregard" of the rules of interrogation by police in that case.
The ever dour Deputy Chief Constable David Francis (pic of the laughing policeman below, one can understand his lack of compassion after all life has been hard on him as he his ginger!) said in a statement that officers had acted "in good faith and the force was not liable for malicious prosecution or misfeasance" and payment was "made in full and final settlement of the claims of Mr O'Brien and Mr Sherwood, without an apology."
So there. Shame on the local plod for that, after all these guys lost 11 years for a crime that they did not do and they (the police) find it impossible to say sorry.
David Francis
South Wales Police
Ellis Sherwood
Michael O'Brien
Phillip Saunders
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