| Date |
Description |
| 4th June 1992 |
Discovery of the body |
| 8th June 1992 |
Eddie
is arrested and interviewed as Police Search Team search Grafton Drive.
|
| 11th June 1992 |
Eddie is
re-interviewed & discloses Glover affair
. |
| June/July 1992 |
Notepads
seized during house search on 8th June are tested and a further
suicide letter written by Paula is found indented on a page and revealed
by ESDA test methods. The original letter has never been found.
|
| 23rd June 1992 |
Police
reconstruction at Grafton Drive. Mysterious appearance of practice
rope which was not found in original search on 8th June.
Maureen Piper interviewed by police. |
| 25th June 1992 |
Susan Dubost interviewed and police tell Maureen Piper
they are scrubbing her statement |
| June/July 1992 |
Eddie is re-arrested and interviewed regarding ESDA
test letter and practice rope Eddies father Norman also
arrested for assisting an offender namely Eddie. |
| August 1992 |
Eddie has a breakdown and is admitted to psychiatric
unit at Clatterbridge Hospital. |
| 24th August 1992 |
Superintendent Humphries submits his critical report
regarding the unsatisfactory actions of the police in their initial
response to the death of Paula.
|
| 7th September 1992 |
CPS give the go ahead to charge Eddie
and he is arrested at the hospital and charged at the police station.
Eddie remains in custody at Walton Prison until trial date. All
allegations against Eddies father, Norman, are withdrawn as he can
account for his whereabouts in Liverpool on the day Paula died.
|
| May 1993 |
Eddie's barrister writes to Eddies solicitor
about the lack of preparation for the trial. |
| 10th June 1993 |
Eddie's trial commences. |
| 3rd July 1993 |
Eddie is found guilty. |
| August 1993 |
Susan Caddick prepares dossier detailing over 100
complaints against the Merseyside Police. |
| 23rd November 1993 |
The Police Complaints Authority agree to supervise the
complaints raised in the dossier and agree to the appointment of
Superintendent Gooch of the Lancashire Constabulary to reinvestigate the
whole case. |
| January
1994 |
Eddie
dismisses his Legal Team at trial and appoints Campbell Malone as his new
solicitor. |
| 27th July 1994 |
Detective Superintendent Gooch submits his final
critical report to the PCA (the Gooch report). |
| 31st July 1994 |
PCA issue a press release regarding concerns over the safety
of Eddies conviction.
|
| November 1994 |
the DPP informed the Gilfoyle family that there
was insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of securing any
conviction against any officer of the Merseyside Police force. |
| August 1995 |
The Merseyside police claimed public interest immunity as
regards the Gooch Report. the High Court grant Eddies solicitors access
to a copy of the Gooch Report but it is severely edited.
|
| September 1995 |
Eddies appeal commences and lasts three days. Adjourned
to October for judgement. |
| 20th October 1995 |
Eddies appeal against his conviction is dismissed by
the three Appeal Court judges. |
| Late 1995/early 1996 |
Channel 4 documentary series Trial & Error' start
investigations into the case.
|
| Spring 1996 |
Susan Caddick makes a second complaint against DCI
Baines. PCA agree to supervise the complaint and appoint a senior
investigating officer from the Cheshire Constabulary. |
| 26th June 1996 |
'Trial and Error' broadcast documentary. |
| 26th September 1996 |
DCI
Baines promoted to Superintendent, still no disciplinary
hearing has taken place against Baines and the other two officers named in
the Gooch inquiry. |
| 23rd October 1996 |
The investigating officers report, (Cheshire
Constabulary), was received by the PCA who passed the file to Chief
Constable of Merseyside. |
| 14th March 1997 |
The PCA informs Susan Caddick that although part of her
allegations (Cheshire inquiry) has been substantiated it was proposed that
Superintendent Baines receive advice from the Assistant Chief Constable of
Merseyside. |
| 17th July 1997 |
'Trial and Error' documentary re-broadcast on
channel 4. |
| November 1997 |
The Gilfoyle family learn that superintendent Harrison
is about to retire from the Merseyside Police. This will save him from
having to attend and face any forthcoming Disciplinary Hearing. |
| Late 1997/Early 1998 |
The Home Affairs select committee considering
matters of public confidence regarding complaints against the police
highlight Eddies case. The delay in holding the disciplinary hearing
(Lancashire Inquiry) was one of the longest in the history of complaints
against the police. |
| May 1998 |
Disciplinary Hearing takes place. Baines & Gregson face
disciplinary charges. Harrison retires and escapes the hearing. The
charges against the two remaining officers are dismissed by the Chief
Constable of Merseyside. The mysterious appearance of the so-called
'practice rope' forms no part of the hearing.
|
| December 2000 |
Eddie's second appeal takes place. |
| 20th December 2000 |
Eddie's second appeal dismissed and Eddie
returned to Prison. |
| July 2002 |
Civil Case:- Gregson v-
Channel Four Television Corporation.
|
| November 2002 |
Desmond Browne QC & Mathew Nicklin Lawyers for Channel
Four Television submit a 19 page report for the CCRC regarding real and
substantial concerns about the safety of the conviction.
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