22/05/2014 Look East - East

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who says that new DNA regulations could show that he is innocent. The

community transport group refused badgers because of confusion over

regulations. It is a lifeline for many people. That is their only

chance for some people come out, coming with us.

A warning from the police, do not jump the weights at roadworks on the

A11 because we will catch you if you do `` jump the lights.

And the artwork left behind by the American airmen.

First tonight, the convicted killer who says a ruling to allow DNA

samples to be retested would allow him to prove his innocence.

Antonio Lopes is serving a life sentence for killing

But he's pinning his hopes on the result of a test case being brought

by this man, who also claims he has been wrongly jailed for murder.

Kevin Nunn was found guilty in 2006 of killing

The Supreme Court is considering his plea that DNA samples

from his case should be re`examined using the latest technology.

Antonio Lopes says the same kind of review could clear him.

In a moment we'll talk to the solicitor who's representing

First,though, this report from Debbie Tubby.

Antonio Lopes has protested his innocence for more than a decade. He

was sentenced to life for killing his partner, Dominguez Olivais, her

body washed up on the banks of the River Bure. This was her memorial

Norfolk Police say it was the Criminal Cases Review Commission

to refer the matter to the appeal courts.

Kevin Nunn is waiting for this landmark ruling

He?s always protested his innocence and has campaigned

He?s serving a minimum of 22 years for murdering

We?ve been trying to get hold of the DNa evidence

and other exhibits from Suffolk Police for over eight years and

We can only assume so that it too can be re`tested.

not just important for Kevin, it?s important for people like Kevin

Suffolk Police told us its decision not to release the evidence was

Both cases are relying on the advances in DNA technology,

which have changed considerably in the last year,

Will it is now possible to get DNA profiling from small samples that

previously it would be impossible to get. The technology has advanced a

lot. This ruling will have rapper cautions for police forces across

the country, but experts say that this is the law just catching up

with science. And if the wrong person has been convicted murderer

still needs to be cot. This afternoon I spoke to James

Saunders, the solicitor representing I asked him why it wasn't already

a person's right to have access to I have no idea what has driven

the East Anglian police to take High Court judge said, well, there

wasn?t actually a right,. And that has meant that the processes of

cooperation which have successfully got us by over many years have come

to an end and so we?re going to the which have successfully got us

by over many years have come to an end and so we?re going to

the Supreme Court to overturn it. How, at the moment, does someone

like Antonio Lopes, for example, get that DNA looked at if he needs to?

Does he have to get permission from you can go to the Criminal Cases

Review Commission and, indeed, Does he have to get permission from

the Criminal Cases Review Board? got any fresh evidence, that is, the

work hasn?t been done to look for Antonio Lopes has done that and they

said, oh, well, because you haven?t got any fresh evidence, that is, the

work hasn?t been done to look for the DNA, then we can?t refer

the case back to the Court of Appeal then it would happily put me out of

a job, but at the moment there is no route for a man like Antonio Lopes,

other than what I?m going to do. And if you do win this case at the

Supreme Court, do you envisage it would happily put me out of a job,

but at the moment there is no route for a man like Antonio Lopes,

other than what I?m going to do. I'm sure there will be more than

just the two that I am dealing with, but what they do in the States, and

what could he be intelligent way to approach it here, would need to have

a look at the other evidence in the case. In cases where the evidence is

circumstantial it seems to me that if there is an opportunity to

resolve matters then it would be absolutely right to do that.

Obviously there are instances where DNA evidence is looked at again by

the police themselves. Absolutely. It is a very unequal position and

logically saw. If the police wanted to check out the DNA themselves on

the Kevin Nunn case, they could just what then the corridor and get the

information and send it to their lab. They are less happy to do that

in solves, ' is, crimes, than on salt grains. If it turned out that

it was the person `` ban on unsolved crimes. As it turned out that it was

not that person, then it would have to be opened again.

Disabled people say they could become prisoners in their own homes

because transport groups which have always been allowed to

use blue parking badges are suddenly having their applications

Suffolk County Council says the groups will need to prove they

care for as well as transport disabled people after

Donald is 87. He has dementia and has to use a wheelchair. This

community buses has lifeline to the outside world. Every three`week his

daughter Susan takes him into town. This blue badge allows the bus to

drop off for other vehicles would get a parking ticket. But when it

expires it will not be renewed. I am expires it will not be renewed. I am

not exactly very happy about it. It means a lot to me and to dad. I have

been very upset, because it is his life. He is going to town, trying to

live a normal life. Why can't you get a blue bag yourself? Because I

do not drive. If we did not have the blue badge, we cannot go to certain

people both anywhere, we have to people both anywhere, we have to

wait for a parking