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zorra_chiflada
03-25-2006, 08:21 PM
what do you guys know about the sion jenkins case?
is it a big deal over there?
GetYourWarOn
03-25-2006, 09:44 PM
maybe.
Lex Diamonds
03-25-2006, 09:45 PM
I never know what's going on anyway so can't help you there.
faz
03-25-2006, 11:56 PM
I saw an interview with him the other day. 30mins.......or 1 hour long. Its blatently obvious why people thing he did it. Other than that interview, I dont really know much about it so I dont really have an opinion if he did it or not.
zorra_chiflada
03-25-2006, 11:58 PM
the reason i ask is because one of his daughters is a good friend of mine. they fled to tasmania after the case.
faz
03-26-2006, 12:03 AM
the reason i ask is because one of his daughters is a good friend of mine. they fled to tasmania after the case.

Oh. So you dont wont my opinion on current events?
GetYourWarOn
03-26-2006, 12:43 AM
the reason i ask is because one of his daughters is a good friend of mine. they fled to tasmania after the case.

get her to register here.
zorra_chiflada
03-26-2006, 12:52 AM
no
voltanapricot
03-26-2006, 02:19 AM
There's been a fair bit of coverage on the case. Have you met him?
zorra_chiflada
03-26-2006, 02:22 AM
no, i haven't. i've only read the articles. absolutely awful story. i've met the mother though
ms.peachy
03-26-2006, 02:47 AM
It certainly got a fair amount of publicity. I've never felt that he was guilty, though. And I got a real sense that the wife and other daughters were manipulated by the police, to the point where they maybe truly believe things that aren't actually so. I may be wrong oof course, he may be guilty as sin, but it's just never added up in my mind that he did it. And it bothers me that the police were so intent on proving that he did, that they may have let things go that would have led them to whoever actually did - who we can only presume is still out there.
zorra_chiflada
03-26-2006, 03:26 AM
i really don't know what annie thinks about it (she's the oldest daughter). but i do remember her telling me that during the court case, that each parent was telling her to say certain things, and she didn't want to.
Freebasser
03-26-2006, 07:40 AM
It's all over the news about twice a year for a week or so.
Documad
03-26-2006, 06:31 PM
I'm not in the UK but I understand that there was an interesting issue in the retrial. I heard that they changed a rule of evidence in the UK just for the retrial and that the judge still didn't let in the evidence regarding his past violent behavior toward others. It's a tricky issue and impossible to understand from just what you see in the news, but it's a particular interest of mine.

Whether he's guilty or innocent, it's an ugly case.
zorra_chiflada
03-26-2006, 06:34 PM
i believe annie when she said he was a violent man.
Documad
03-26-2006, 07:48 PM
Yes, that's what it said in the news.

There is a question, whenever a defendant is charged with a violent crime, of whether the jury can hear about past instances where the defendant was violent. The danger is that the jury will convict the defendant for being a violent guy, instead of because he did the specific crime he is charged with. If this guy used to beat his wife, does that make it more or less likely that he murdered his foster daughter? Not necessarily.

I think it would be really hard to be part of the family. Either the guy got away with murder or the police really messed up. I just can't imagine.