So you think Jason Moore, Eddie Gilfoyle & Stacey Hyde’s murder convictions were the right verdicts? Be interested to hear more about that.
I thought it was a brilliant series. I think highlights how tricky cases can be without eh objective evidence we often see in modern cases, such as phone data, cell site data, CCTV, ring doorbell footage.
You'll have to forgive me if I get some details wrong, as it's been a few weeks now and I have watched a lot of true crime in between.
Jason Moore - classic joint enterprise. It was HIS 'beef' and HE made the arrangement to meet the victim. I don't believe for one second that he didn't get out of that car. Doesn't matter if he actually did the stabbing or not - he was there and he orchestrated the whole confrontation. Plus if was anything as obnoxious and, quite frankly, awful as his sister when he was on the stand then I'm not surprised the jury convicted him.
Stacey Hyde - she stabbed him in the back! That's game over for self defence. And her friend was outside making the 999 call at the time so the defence of protecting her also fails at that point.The initial conviction was correct based on the evidence presented the jury at the time in my opinion. I would say that the five years that she served for killing a man, given all the circumstances (her age, his violent history etc) was probably about right. Sadly, I think she was one of those people always destined to have a short life. Remember, she was mixing with the wrong crowd before she was convicted and that history of bad judgement and poor decision making just continued when she was released. Personally, I don't think prison can be blamed for that. I found an article on his inquest:
Eddie Gilfoyle - I really need to watch this one again before commenting because that was the epsiode that just didn't hold my interest.
To be honest, I actually thought the series was quite poor - way too one sided towards the convicted person and I have no doubt there was a lot of information missing from each case. Sorry, I know you enjoyed it but I just found it infuriating!
