In principle, using the rainy-day, kitchen-sink post-rock of Manchester band The Smiths so prominently in a film like The Killer seems incredibly perverse, given that it’s an exotic, globe-trotting thriller about an American assassin. But in reality, it’s actually very sound choice indeed: legend has it that the band’s singer, Morrissey, had two reasons for naming his band so, the first being that “Smith” is one of the most common and thus unremarkable surnames in the world. The second, and much more subversive theory, suggests that it’s also a reference to David and Maureen Smith, brother-in-law and sister of ’60s serial killer Myra Hindley, the snappily dressed couple whose testimony blew open the Moors Murderers case and whose beatnik likenesses adorn the cover of Sonic Youth’s 1990 album “Goo”.
Widower of Post Office worker trying to clear her name loses appeal fight
15.08.2023 - 13:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The widower of a former worker at a Manchester Post Office who was jailed for theft has lost a legal fight to clear her name. Ian O’Donnell wanted judges to overturn the conviction of his wife Joanne, who died seven years ago aged 64.
Three appeal judges recently considered the case of Mrs O’Donnell, who worked at North Levenshulme Post Office, and on Tuesday issued their judgment dismissing the appeal.
Lord Justice Holroyde, Mr Justice Picken and Sir Nigel Davis, who heard arguments at a Court of Appeal hearing in London in June, were told that Mrs O’Donnell had been convicted of theft and given a seven-month jail sentence after a trial at Manchester Crown Court in 2007.
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The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) had referred the case to the Court of Appeal after being contacted by Mr O’Donnell. A spokesman said the case had been referred in the wake of the Horizon IT scandal. Lawyers representing the Post Office opposed the appeal.
Errors made by Horizon software, which was made by tech firm Fujitsu and used by the Post Office, led to the wrongful convictions of more than 700 people for false accounting and theft between 1999 and 2015.
Lord Justice Holroyde said appeal judges had previously considered appeals against conviction by many former Post Office staff prosecuted many years after being convicted of dishonesty offences.
He said those cases raised issues about abuse of process and the safety of convictions, “having regard to concerns about the reliability” of Horizon.
The judge said Mrs O’Donnell had denied wrongdoing but been convicted by a jury after a five-day trial. He added: “For the reasons we have given, this is not one of
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