Police expert witness in key Texas-based child porn probe is a fraud

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How police put their faith in the 'expert' witness who was a fraud

Jim Bates joined the police database of qualified witnesses and was used in dozens of serious investigations - including into child pornography and a senior Met officer. Now, after revelations that he falsified his background, the CPS is reviewing the cases he handled

Jamie Doward, home affairs editor The Observer
Sunday March 23 2008


Failures in the vetting procedures used for expert witnesses have emerged after a court ruled that a computer analyst who helped train hundreds of police officers and gave evidence in scores of trials is a liar and a fraudster.

The Crown Prosecution Service is now launching a review of a number of serious cases that drew on evidence supplied by Trevor James 'Jim' Bates, 67, a former television repair man, who has been found guilty of making a false written statement claiming he had a degree in electronic engineering, and perjury.

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.......Bates established himself as a key defence witness in trials involving men who claimed that they had been wrongly accused of accessing child pornography websites and also used his reputation to launch attacks on the police for their handling of Operation Ore, the police investigation into British users of a Texas-based sex site that sold images and video clips of child porn. Through his company website, Bates suggested that many of the 4,000-plus men arrested in the UK for accessing the site may have been innocent.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/23/ukcrime.law



Maybe Operation Ore isn't quite so nailed down and shut after all.............

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1. Operation Ore viz Blair's War Cabinet story gagging...

CounterPunch

January 29, 2003

Blackout in Britain
Alleged Pedophiles Helm Blair's War Room
by MIKE JAMES

A child-sex scandal that threatened to destroy Tony Blair's government last week has been mysteriously squashed and wiped off the front pages of British newspapers. Operation Ore, the United Kingdom's most thorough and comprehensive police investigation of crimes against children, seems to have uncovered more than is politically acceptable at the highest reaches of the British elite. In the 19th of January edition of The Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay sensationally reported that senior members of Tony Blair's government were being investigated for paedophilia and the "enjoyment" of child-sex pornography:

"The Sunday Herald has also had confirmed by a very senior source in British intelligence that at least one high-profile former Labour Cabinet minister is among Operation Ore suspects. The Sunday Herald has been given the politician's name but, for legal reasons, can not identify the person.

There are still unconfirmed rumours that another senior Labour politician is among the suspects. The intelligence officer said that a 'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur."

http://www.counterpunch.org/james01292003.html

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2. Wonder if he could have done a little evidence planting to boost his

reputation. Now, I know people will think I'm jumping the gun with that question, but let me tell you, there are literally thousands of men/boys who's lives are being ruined by this insane witch hunt for 'sexual predators'. Guys who have been misled by underage girls (who didn't look underage at all), guys who would NEVER had gotten into a mess at all but they were pestered and bugged and bothered by cops who set them up, and people who very well could have gotten onto some disgusting websites by mistake. (One time, while job searaching, I typed in 'celebrity' in Google. I was looking for Celebrity Staffing. I got a porn website. I ran to confess what happened right away because I knew that they place I was working monitored the internet. I was working but I hated the job, and I had to confess that part too. From that day one my internet address was constantly bombarded by offers to visit this porn website and a shitload of others. Luckily the office manager thought it was hilarious. She also understood why I was curious about other jobs.) Any way, shit happens and sometimes it is just NOT as clear cut and easy as the genital police would want you to believe.

P.S. I am female and am in no way sticking up for predators or pervs. And I don't have anyone in my family on the sex offender registry. But I do know that sometimes people get their lives ruined and they just don't deserve it.

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3. Lives ruined...Bush/Blair current top life ruiners with this fetid war.

In the UK a whole series of corrupt police expert witnesses has been outed dince the begining of the Iraq war.

Those protecting establishment decisions to sanitise the biographies and promote wholesome fairytales about the grim Poodlebrothers may be on the run at last.