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Explore cases of wrongful convictions, systemic failures, and institutional deceit—where justice, fairness, and honesty became a cruel horizon.
When Justice Becomes Cruelty
Justice is meant to be a pillar of truth and fairness, yet history reveals countless cases where it has been twisted into a mechanism of cruelty. When institutions abandon their duty to seek the truth, innocent people suffer, and the very concept of justice collapses.
This page brings together high-profile cases where power, deceit, and systemic failure destroyed lives. From wrongful convictions to academic fraud, from judicial arrogance to corporate cover-ups – each case is a stark reminder that fairness and honesty can become illusions when systems serve their own interests instead of the truth.
Below are links to detailed pages on specific cases, each exposing a different facet of justice
Wanneer Gerechtigheid Wreedheid Wordt
Gerechtigheid zou een pijler van waarheid en eerlijkheid moeten zijn, maar de geschiedenis laat talloze gevallen zien waarin ze is verdraaid tot een instrument van wreedheid. Wanneer instellingen hun plicht om de waarheid te zoeken verzaken, lijden onschuldige mensen, en stort het hele concept van gerechtigheid in.
Deze pagina brengt spraakmakende zaken samen waarin macht, bedrog en systemisch falen levens hebben verwoest. Van onterechte veroordelingen tot academische fraude, van gerechtelijke arrogantie tot doofpotaffaires – elk geval herinnert ons eraan dat eerlijkheid en rechtvaardigheid illusies kunnen worden wanneer systemen hun eigen belangen boven de waarheid stellen.
Hieronder vindt u links naar gedetailleerde pagina’s over specifieke zaken, die elk een ander aspect van ontspoorde gerechtigheid blootleggen.
Key Cases of Systemic Cruelty
📌 The Outreau Affair (France) – A judicial disaster where innocent people were imprisoned based on unreliable testimonies, and Judge Fabrice Burgaud refused to acknowledge his failures. (See: [Saint-Omer, Near Calais In Northern France])
📌 The Post Office Scandal (UK) – Hundreds of Subpostmasters falsely prosecuted due to faulty IT software, with convictions deemed unsafe by Lord Peter Fraser. (See: [Post Office Scandal Pages])
📌 The Birmingham Six (UK) – Six innocent men wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings, enduring 16 years in prison before their convictions were overturned. (See: [The Birmingham Six Pages])
📌 The Guildford Four Six (UK) – Four innocent people wrongly convicted of the Guildford pub bombings, suffering years of imprisonment and injustice before their convictions were overturned. (See: [The Guildford Four Pages])
📌 Liam Allan (UK) – A university student falsely accused of sexual assault, whose trial collapsed after crucial evidence proving his innocence was withheld by police, exposing serious flaws in disclosure practices. (See: [Liam Allan Pages])
📌 Brian Banks (USA) – Wrongful convictions that stole years of freedom due to false accusations and flawed legal proceedings. (See: [Brian Banks Page])
📌 Ryan Ferguson (USA) – Wrongly convicted of murder at 19, Ryan Ferguson spent nearly a decade in prison before his conviction was overturned due to lack of evidence. (See: [Ryan Ferguson Page])
📌 The Scottsboro Boys (USA) – Nine Black teenagers falsely accused of assault in 1931 Alabama, facing wrongful convictions and decades of injustice in a racially charged trial. (See: [The Scottsboro Boys Page])
📌 George Stinney (USA) – At just 14 years old, George Stinney was the youngest person executed in the U.S., later exonerated in a case marked by racial injustice and a lack of due process. (See: [George Stinney])
📌 Kalief Browder (USA) – Arrested at 16 and jailed for three years without trial, Kalief Browder’s tragic story exposed the brutal realities of pretrial detention and solitary confinement. (See: [Kalief Browder Page])
📌 Raphael Rowe (UK) – Wrongly convicted as part of the ‘M25 Three,’ Raphael Rowe spent 12 years in prison before proving his innocence and exposing systemic injustice. (See: Raphael Rowe Page])
📌 Andrew Makinson (UK) – Wrongly imprisoned for 17 years due to flawed evidence, Andrew Malkinson fought relentlessly to clear his name and expose failings in the legal system. (See: [Andrew Makinson Page])
📌 Anthony Ray Hinton (USA) – Sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit, Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on death row before his exoneration revealed the failures of the justice system. (See: [Anthony Ray Hinton Page])
📌 John Bunn (USA) – Falsely convicted of murder at just 14 years old, John Bunn spent years in prison before his conviction was overturned, revealing police misconduct. (See: [John Bunn Page])
📌 Sheldon Thomas (USA) – Convicted of murder based on mistaken identity, Sheldon Thomas spent 18 years in prison before being exonerated due to a wrongful identification. (See: [Sheldon Thomas Page])
📌 Ricky Jackson (USA) – Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death, Ricky Jackson spent 39 years in prison – the longest-known wrongful incarceration in U.S. history—before being exonerated. (See: Ricky Jackson Page])
📌 Michael Morton (USA) –Wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, Michael Morton spent nearly 25 years in prison before DNA evidence proved his innocence and led to his exoneration.. (See: [Michael Morton Page])
📌 Kevin Strickland (USA) – Wrongly convicted of a triple murder, Kevin Strickland spent 43 years in prison before being exonerated – the longest wrongful incarceration in Missouri’s history. (See: Kevin Strickland Page])
📌 Glynn Simmons Conviction (USA) – Glynn Simmons spent nearly 50 years in prison for a murder he always maintained he did not commit. In 2023, his conviction was overturned after evidence emerged that had been withheld from his defense, highlighting yet another grave miscarriage of justice. (See: [Glynn Simmons Page])
📌 The Central Park Five (USA) – Five Black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted of a brutal assault in Central Park, spending years in prison before DNA evidence and a confession from the real perpetrator led to their exoneration. (See: The Central Park Five Page])
📌 Arizona’s Pioneer Hotel Fire (1970) & Louis Taylor (USA) – A tragic hotel fire led to the wrongful conviction of 16-year-old Louis Taylor, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. (See: [Louis Taylor Case])
📌 Juan Catalan (USA) – Wrongfully accused of murder, his alibi was proven using raw footage from a TV show, highlighting the power of evidence in overturning injustice. (See: [Juan Catalan Case])
📌 Valentino Dixon (USA) – Valentino Dixon spent 27 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit – learn how the truth was covered up (See: [Valentino Dixon Page])
📌 The hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo and DSK (USA) – The allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn by hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo raised deep questions about power and justice. (See: [Nafissatou Diallo and DSK Page]) – [Dominique Strauss-Kahn])
📌 Diederik Stapel (Netherlands) – A celebrated academic who fabricated research on a massive scale, deceiving the scientific community and eroding trust in social science. (See: [Diederik Stapel Pages])
📌 Manuel Mauro (Netherlands) – Forced to leave Angola alone as a child, Manuel Mauro became the face of rejected asylum seekers in the Netherlands. After years of uncertainty, he was finally allowed to stay under the child amnesty, building a new life despite the challenges of displacement. (See: [Manuel Mauro Page])
📌 The Putten Murder Case (Netherlands) – The Putten Murder Case: In 1994, stewardess Christel Ambrosius was murdered in her grandmother’s house in the Veluwe. Despite DNA evidence excluding them, Wilco Viets and Herman Dubois were wrongly convicted and served most of their sentences before being exonerated in 2002. A new suspect was identified through a DNA match in 2008. (See: [The Putten Murder Case Page])
📌 Lucia de Berk (Netherlands) – A nurse wrongly convicted of multiple murders due to flawed statistical reasoning and bias, spending years in prison before being fully exonerated. Her case exposed deep failures in forensic evidence and judicial reasoning. (See: [Lucia de Berk – The Hidden Picture])
📌 Ina Post (Netherlands) – Wrongfully convicted of killing an elderly woman based on a false confession under intense police pressure. She spent years fighting to clear her name before being fully exonerated. (See: [Ina Post Pages])
📌 Schiedammer Murder Case (Netherlands) – A miscarriage of justice where an innocent man was convicted of a child’s murder and assault, while the real perpetrator remained free. His conviction was overturned after new evidence emerged. (See: [Schiedammer Murder Case Pages])
📌 Deventer Murder Case (Netherlands) – A controversial conviction filled with doubts and inconsistencies, leading to ongoing debates about judicial errors. The convicted man maintains his innocence, and the case remains a focal point of legal scrutiny. (See: [Deventer Murder Case Pages])
📌 Nicky Verstappen (Netherlands) – A high-profile child murder case that remained unsolved for decades until DNA research led to a suspect. The case raised ethical and legal questions about forensic methods and privacy rights. (See: [Nicky Verstappen Pages])
📌 Dutch Child Benefits Scandal (Netherlands) – The Dutch Child Benefits Scandal revealed a massive injustice where thousands of families were wrongfully accused of fraud by the tax authorities, leading to devastating financial and emotional consequences. This page delves into the background, the victims’ stories, and the ongoing fight for justice. (See: [Dutch Child Benefits Scandal Page])
📌 Bernie Madoff Justice Betrayed (USA) – Bernie Madoff orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors out of billions of dollars, before being sentenced to 150 years in prison. (See: [Bernie Madoff Pages], [The Paradox of Trust])
📌 NHS Infected Blood Scandal (UK) – Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis through contaminated blood products in a scandal that exposed shocking medical negligence and government failures. (See: [NHS Infected Blood Scandal])
📌Princess Delphine Justice Betrayed (Belgium) – After a long legal battle, Delphine Boël was officially recognized as the daughter of King Albert II, becoming Princess Delphine of Belgium. Her fight for truth and legitimacy reshaped the Belgian monarchy. (See: [[Delphine Boël Pages] – [Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied])
📌 Beniamino Zuncheddu (Italy) – Beniamino Zuncheddu, an Italian shepherd, was wrongly imprisoned for 32 years—now acquitted of murder. [Beniamino Zuncheddu Page])
📌 Other Cases of Justice Betrayed – From corporate fraud to legal misconduct, these cases expose how truth can be manipulated for personal or institutional gain. (See: [Beniamino Zuncheddu Page])
The Bigger Picture
What unites all these cases is not just the suffering of individuals, but the systemic failures that allowed these injustices to happen. The refusal to admit mistakes. The institutional loyalty over truth. The blind faith in flawed systems.
Justice, honesty, and fairness should not be a cruel horizon – always promised but never reached. By exposing these failures, we remind ourselves that justice must be constantly defended, or it will become just another instrument of power.
Het Grotere Plaatje
Wat al deze zaken verbindt, is niet alleen het leed van de individuen, maar de systemische falen die deze onrechtvaardigheden mogelijk maakten. De weigering om fouten toe te geven. De loyaliteit aan instituties boven de waarheid. Het blind vertrouwen in gebrekkige systemen.
Gerechtigheid, eerlijkheid en rechtvaardigheid mogen geen wrede horizon zijn – altijd beloofd, maar nooit bereikt. Door deze mislukkingen bloot te leggen, herinneren we ons eraan dat gerechtigheid voortdurend verdedigd moet worden, anders wordt het slechts een ander instrument van macht.
Tony Garnett – BBC HARDtalk 2016
Film and TV producer Tony Garnett has died aged 83. In 2016 HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur spoke to him about his life and work. Watching TV is something pretty much all of us do for news, sport and entertainment, but how much of what we stare at on the box do we actually remember? In contrast, Tony Garnett’s work was unforgettable. He uncovered dark corners of British life, addressing subjects such as homelessness, illegal abortion and police corruption. How much of his motivation came from the dark corners in his own life?
Birmingham pub bombings inquest reopened – BBC Newsnight
It was a ghastly piece of our recent history, but the events of November 1974 in Birmingham, have not yet been consigned to history. A senior coroner has determined that the unfinished inquests into the two pub bombings, should reopen. Is this another Hillsborough? The cases are very different – but comparisons are drawn. John Sweeney spent the day in Birmingham. His report is followed by a discussion with Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was among the 21 victims in the bombings, former Met Police Commander, Bob Milton and Sean O’Callaghan, a Provisional IRA member turned informant.
Post Office Board knew about Horizon system flaws and exclusive document show insurers were alerted
18 jan 2024
As the Post Office Inquiry continues to hear testimony, more and more details are coming to light about who knew what when.
Back in 2019, the Post Office spent at least a-hundred-million pounds still defending the Horizon system when more than five hundred subpostmasters won their landmark settlement.
Tonight, we’ve seen documents that appear to show that the Post Office Board was aware of the Horizon system’s failures back in 2013 – indeed it was so worried about a potential miscarriage of justice that it alerted its insurers.
David Davis: ‘I don’t care if it bankrupts the Post Office’ don’t challenge the Postmasters
7 jan 2024
“There should be no challenge. The appeal is made and it basically goes through on the nod.”
Neither the Post Office nor judicial system should challenge appeals by Horizon scandal victims seeking to overturn wrongful convictions says Sir David Davis, Conservative MP and former Brexit Secretary.
Educational: very important video
Educational: very important video
Post Office ‘buried’ computer error report
10 jan 2024
“They wanted to, quote, keep it out of the public domain.”
It’s “absolutely clear” that the Post Office “buried” a report which highlighted errors with the computer system, says IT consultant Jason Coyne.
David Davis: ‘I don’t care if it bankrupts the Post Office’ don’t challenge the Postmasters
7 jan 2024
“There should be no challenge. The appeal is made and it basically goes through on the nod.”
Neither the Post Office nor judicial system should challenge appeals by Horizon scandal victims seeking to overturn wrongful convictions says Sir David Davis, Conservative MP and former Brexit Secretary.
Educational: very important video
Educational: very important video
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