Letter: Seriel denial
What we do have, however, is an appeals system with increasingly authoritative examinations being undertaken, right up to the House of Lords. That should get us as close to understanding what happened as is possible.
Surely the most disquieting aspect of the whole affair has been the democratic deficit, as successive governments simply rejected the findings of their own enquiries - not for any reasons which they cared to risk making public but because they were just not minded to back down. A 17-year-long denial of basic fairness. To what end? In whose name?
Ian Taylor
Manse Road
Edinburgh