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However, the CPS refused to charge her because of human rights laws which state that a defendant’s lawyer should be allowed to cross-examine the only witness. But once Mr Stout died, police had only hearsay evidence in statements from his daughter and granddaughter, whom he phoned immediately after the robbery, and the first police officer at the scene. DC Hopkins said: ‘I started studying the law on hearsay. I looked into English case law, European judgments and the principles of the Criminal Justice Act, in relation to when a witness has died.’ DC Hopkins also contacted Cambridge professor John Spencer, an expert on hearsay evidence. Prosecutors relented and in early 2010 the woman admitted robbery and was jailed for four years. Her accomplice is still being sought. The case is now used as an aide in the training of prosecutors. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069240/Dogged-detective-turns-law-student-bring-justice-burglar-caused-heros-death.html#ixzz1fTIqkoNb -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------