This was a very poor "Barry George dun it reely" effort. The single particle of gunshot residue of which so much was made, they forgot to mention that the coat had been in a firearms lab for 3 weeks before it was found. They also forgot to mention that it was the most common type of residue with a 1 in three probability not 1 in fave.
Then you have the bullet. Fabricating a depleted round of this type requires skill. Barry George had never been around firearms, every gun club he approached wouldn't touch him, and shot of him holding a Starting Pistol to establish some kind of connections with firearms - for heaven's sake, a Starting Pistol?
They could have made an interesting program on this; they didn't. They just dressed up a lot of weak arguments as certainty, arguments that were shown to be false at the re-trial, which they hardly mentioned. It was very, very clear at the re-trial that George didn't do it.
This is what the BBC has sunk to..
Then you have the bullet. Fabricating a depleted round of this type requires skill. Barry George had never been around firearms, every gun club he approached wouldn't touch him, and shot of him holding a Starting Pistol to establish some kind of connections with firearms - for heaven's sake, a Starting Pistol?
They could have made an interesting program on this; they didn't. They just dressed up a lot of weak arguments as certainty, arguments that were shown to be false at the re-trial, which they hardly mentioned. It was very, very clear at the re-trial that George didn't do it.
This is what the BBC has sunk to..