BENGUIT, OMAR: Unsolved TV -
117,371. Omar regularly calls from prison where he is serving a life sentence for murdering a young woman in 2002. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) Unsolved I II: The Man With No Alibi, BBC 2018
117,372. ‘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.’ (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid. Omar
117,373. There’s no forensic evidence linking this man to the crime. And it took three trials to get a conviction. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
117,374. ‘There’s 17 witnesses who came forward.’ (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid. Brian the rozzer
117,375. Omar’s sister claimed the police framed him by pushing other drug addicts into backing up parts of BB’s story. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
117,376. John’s story shows the police were prepared to put forward unreliable witnesses who changed their accounts. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
117,377. Most of the prosecution witnesses were crack and heroin addicts. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
117,378. 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. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.