Unsolved TV -
Omar [Benguit] regularly calls from prison where he is serving a life sentence for murdering a young woman in 2002. Unsolved I II: The Man With No Alibi, BBC 2018
‘Convicted on no evidence. Not one piece of evidence can they prove that I done it. Because I didn’t do it. I wasn’t there.’ ibid. Omar
There’s no forensic evidence linking this man to the crime. And it took three trials to get a conviction. ibid.
‘There’s 17 witnesses who came forward.’ ibid. Brian the rozzer
Omar’s sister claimed the police framed him by pushing other drug addicts into backing up parts of BB’s story. ibid.
John’s story shows the police were prepared to put forward unreliable witnesses who changed their accounts. ibid.
Most of the prosecution witnesses were crack and heroin addicts. ibid.
Less than three months after he [Restivo – convicted killer] moves in, Oki is killed here three streets away … Exactly four months to the day after Oki is murdered, there is another murder nearby and we know for sure he [Restivo] did this one. ibid.