NEW: Eddie Gilfoyles sister, Sue Caddick, spoke at a Symposium in London on the Criminal Cases Review Commission organised by Innocence Network UK Bristol University. Sue's speech can be viewed on YouTube, it is in two parts: Part 1,Part 2.
The event was also reported in the recent edition of the Law Gazette - download it here
RECENT NEWS - 23/02/2012:
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NEW: Merseyside Police and HM Inspectorate have issued a joint statement 23/2/2012 (RE: Missing Box) after Dominic Kennedy of the Times Newspaper pointed out to the Police the potential for a conflict of interest by involving the Humberside Force in the investigation. A former Chief Constable of the Humberside Force had a previous involvement in the Gilfoyle case.
A joint response from HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and Merseyside Police Force:
Press release 23rd February 2012:
“In order to avoid concerns that there might be a conflict of interest, it is the view of HMIC and the Chief Constables of Merseyside and Humberside that another force should be appointed to carry out the external review.
“This is not a reflection on the integrity of the two forces involved, it is to ensure any perceptions of conflicts of interest are addressed.
“HMIC will assist Merseyside in appointing another force to carry out the review, and work undertaken by Humberside Police to date will be passed to the new force.
“It would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this time.”
Please sign our PETITION (Click here!) to get justice for Eddie! Already 2,000 signatures! Please sign!!!
In June 1992, Paula Gilfoyle was found hanging in the garage of her marital home in Upton, Wirral. An anguished hand-written suicide note was left to her husband, Eddie Gilfoyle, which told Eddie not to blame himself and to find happiness without her. Merseyside Police who attended the scene were confident that it was a suicide and so were extremely cavalier with the physical evidence. No photographs were taken, evidence was removed from the scene and destroyed and mandatory police procedures were not carried out.
Over the next couple of days, friends and family of Paula came forward to explain how happy Paula was to be expecting a child and that she would never of done this, it must be murder, by her husband Eddie's hand. And so the case begun against Eddie Gilfoyle.
Eddie has been in prison for 18 years, has had two appeals and although is now released he will never be free until his conviction is overturned and he has cleared his name.
At the House of Lords press conference in March 2011, Eddie said to the media:
“I am no longer in jail but I will always be a prisoner while this conviction is over my head. I never killed my wife and I never killed my baby. When the Merseyside Police messed up the scene of my wife's death and destroyed all the evidence they knew that there would be consequences and ramifications because of their actions”.
People need to know what the Police and the justice system are capable of doing to a person's life and their family's to save face of not admitting what they have done wrong. We humbly ask you, please help us, please help us get the message out to the country to stop this from happening to you or your family's. What would you do if it was your son? Your brother? Your uncle? Would you turn a blind eye and give up or would you fight for what is right until the very end?
We have a petition online, please sign it if you would like to help us get justice for Eddie. We are aiming for 5,000 signatures. Thank you.
