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Originally Posted by Niamh.
Also, by the sounds of it his conviction was overturned because of how badly the Police and his own lawyer acted towards him when he was a minor rather than proving he was innocent  I still think he did it. |
That's the thing for me though, if Brendan was involved... he clearly had (probably still has) the mental capacity of a young child and would have been easily manipulated into his involvement with little understanding of what was going on or the magnitude of it. The fact that he was interviewed at all without an adult present is a disgrace... and the way they lead him in the interview only makes it worse. And then after all of that, he was essentially put on trial as an adult of sound mind... AND with sub-par representation. Just a total shambles really, and right for it to be overturned.