The following is an extract of my Testimony while being cross-examination by the Prosecutor, Gary McCrudden in December 1992:

Q668. With the wires coming out at the top. I want to suggest to you that the only photographs that you were shown was the album which is exhibit 5?

A. Your honour, I was shown two photographs with this object on the wall. One was at closer range than the other. That was down at that corner where Corporal Blacklock stopped me. ( Page 617 of Trial Transcripts.)


The two Photographs below were contained in one of the Prosecutor, Gary McCrudden’s, files which I took from the courtroom without his knowledge at the close of my Appeal in March 2010.

With no apparent Photographs of the device sitting in its original position on the wall, the Prosecution’s two main Military Witnesses testified that the device was sitting in a vantage point which best bolstered the Prosecution’s case. (see The Arrest page)

Q303. And then what did you say? 

A.  To my mind I recollect that he put it down where I have marked, your honour. (Page 117 Trial Transcripts.)


In 1998, six years after my Trial, both Soldiers made fresh statments, Private Boyce, completely retracted his trial testimony. In January 2007 the then Lord Chief Justice and two other senior Judges requested that the PPS produce Private Boyce to explain himself. After a convincing time lapse the Prosecutor falsely informed the Court that his witness could no longer be traced. The Detective tasked to locate Private Boyce has confirmed that he successfully did so.

The evidence currently before the Court (Sept 2011) is compelling, if not overwhelming, that a Crown Prosecutor was involved in 'coaching' his witnesses prior to trial; of perverting the course of justice by conceaing the whereabouts of one of his witness; and doctoring and fabricating evidence to help secure a wrongful conviction against me. (pages 33 -38 Book of Evidence)

During the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) investigation into my case one of the Soldiers disclosed that he had been ‘coached’ prior to my Trial. However, as there was some doubt as to what coaching was involved the CCRC concluded that;

11.6.1 "Coaching" of Army Witnesses

There is no evidence that the army witnesses received coaching beyond guidance on court etiquette including viewing a video. ... The Commission does not consider that failure to disclose such "coaching" as took place is material to the safety of Mr Walsh's conviction.


Had the CCRC been aware of the existence of these Photographs when it concluded its investigation 0n 27th March 2000 it may have concluded differently regarding the Soldiers having been “coached” prior to Trial. (CCRC SoR Document here)

Mr McCrudden, maintained at my Trial, in 1992, that;

It is a question of a conspiracy of lies, a deliberate attempt to have this man convicted of an offence for which he should not have been convicted.

...

This case so far as the essential facts are concerned is black and white, either there is a concoction and a fabrication, a series of dastardly lies being told by the military witnesses in this case or there is not. Mistake does not enter into it in my respectful submission. (Pages 517 & 523 Trial Transcripts.)


See also The Trial page for further evidence of PPS improprieties.