There was a documentary about his original trial the night before the appeal started.
It was scandalous, what happened.
All the witnesses gave different descriptions of the man thought to be the killer leaving the house - all sorts of different details (as is quite common in witness statements) - but the detail they all gave was that he had shoulder length hair. C4 interviewd the man who had cut his hair for years, BG had never in his life had anyhting other than v short hair - as he did on the day of the murder.
The other evidence was that he had 'lied' about never having seen a photograph of himself with a big model machine gun. He said he hadn't - and he hadn't - it was on an 11 year-old film of him that was found undeveloped in his flat during the search. It was a fancy dress party.
Also, much was made of his interest in guns - in fact the gun club he tried to join, and drank in the bar of a few times, refused him membership on the grounds that he was not really of adequate responsibility. he had never fired a gun, let alone owned one.
The gun that killed JD had been expertly adapted to be silent, and would have required a professional level of knowledge and skill.
The lab that provided the report on the one speck of gun residue were of the opinion that the speck could never be taken as proof, and could not link to any particular gun.. They were horrified when they realised what weight thier report had been given in the trial.
Protocol had not been followed. His jacket (the one with the residue) should have been bagged and sent straight to the lab. Instead it had been put on mannequin to be photographed - and the mannequin had been used to photograph lots of other items involved in gun crimes. A forensic expert said he doubted any lab would have agreed to do tests on the jacket had they known the degree of contamination it had been subject to - and certainly would have said how invalid the evidence was, in the report.
It sounds as if it was his sister who has kept up all this vigilence...I won't be hirung his lawyers if I get picked up for a crime I haven't committed!
Poor, poor man.