If for whatever reason the courts concluded that the appellant was wrongly convicted of the offence charged, or was left in doubt as to whether he was rightly convicted of the offence the it must be necessity to quash the conviction.

It could make no difference that the appellant might if duly indicted have been convicted of some other offence.

Well at least that is what the first caveat of the repeal proviso states, however it failed to state that if you are an individual who is innocent and trying to regain your liberty then this rule of law or any other which may assist you does apply unless you belong to the slime gang otherwise known as the Freemasons.

I was arrested in a shop in my home town of Birmingham for attempted deception, after being lured there by two police informers, I did not know they were police informers until shortly after my arrest.

The date of that arrest was the 29th November 1997. On arrival at the police station I was processed and placed in a cell to await the arrival of my solicitor, before interview however whilst in the cell I was visited by two CID's who arrested me for an allegation of wounding with intent.

During the course of my interview I gave that police a detailed account of my movements for the date and time of the alleged offence of wounding, that date being the 14Th November 1997.

Despite the fact I told the police that I was in a completely different area, at the Birmingham Irish Boxing Club, based in Kitts Green and not in the Balsall Heath area carrying out any form of attack as the complainant claimed, the police paid no attention to anything I had to say.

The only thing the police seemed to interested in was a confession, after all once you are arrested you must confess, regardless of whether you have committed any offence or not, your priority should be to save the police having to do any work.

The fact that the police do not like to work is reflected in the fact that at the conclusion of my interview I was charged with malicious wounding with intent.

The police did nothing to verify my alibi but even more amazingly the police had no form of evidence to support the complainant's allegation, neither did they have medical evidence.

Despite the fact that in accordance with P.A.C.E. my alibi should have been first verified and the police should have carried out an investigation into the complainant's allegation in order to ascertain the validity of the complaint.

I was attending court for two months on a serious charge of wounding, which carries a life sentence with nothing but the complainant's word to substanciate, his claims.

The solicitor I had seemed to be working more for the police than myself, hence him allowing me to be charged and attending court in such bizarre circumstances.

On the 26th January 1998 almost two months after being charged, I stood out-side Birmingham Magistrates Court waiting for my solicitor to arrive for yet another court hearing. When my solicitor arrived I had strong words with him out-side court about the bizarre manner in which I was charged and having to attend court on the basis of no evidence.

The solicitor reluctantly went into court and made an application for the matter to be discharged. The application was successful and that was the end of the matter or at least that is what I thought.

The police prosecution were not happy at that fact the matter was discharged and so on the 19th November 1998 when I attended court for an old style committal in relation to a charge of handling I was denied legal representation. I left the dock and refused to take any part in the proceedings.

Moments after I returned to my cell a slip of paper was pushed under my door on which it stated I had been committed to stand trial for the handling matter and also for the section 18 charge of wounding which had previously been discharged and to date while serving a life sentence for the offence have never been recharged.

I was denied legal representation on the 19th November 1998 in order that the magistrate could unlawfully commit the section 18 matter to the crown court. Thereafter the police conspired with each solicitor I engaged and did their level best to sink me further. The court realizing that I was intelligent enough not to be baffled by their proceedings refused me legal representation.

I took no part in what was clearly an unlawful trial and was tried and convicted in my absence.

On the 30th September 1999 two after the unlawful trail I was moved from Birmingham Crown Court to Nottingham Crown Court and given a life sentence.

I have now been in prison for almost four years and all that CCRC and appeal courts can do is assist each other in covering up this travesty of justice.

There are too many of us in prison because of police corruption and we will stay in prison along with many more that are due to come, unless we unite in a joint effort to bring to the attention of the public exactly what is going on in their fine government departments.

When I consider the fact that I am sat here wearing my own clothes instead of prison clothes simply because a group of Irishmen were prepared to die in order to make this possible.

I have had the experience of writing to a few inmates who claim to have been incarcerated through a miscarriage of Justice in a bid to set up a united front, however they wrote back to say that they were awaiting a response from the CCRC and did not want to jeopardize their chances. It really highlights how weak and selfish a lot of people are while claiming to have done an injustice.

Like true soldiers they are only concerned with their own welfare, goodness forbid we were to be engaged in physical warfare with those sort.

As you will have deduced by now I am very out spoken with no time for weak, selfish people but if like me you have courage and want not only to make an impact but rock and change the system,

please write to me,

Soldier to the Cause

D.L. Francis

EC 4968

Parkhurst Prison

Newport

Isle of Wight

PO30 5NX