Does anybody know enough about and have an opinion about the case of Sion Jenkins? As far as I am aware, this deputy headmaster was convicted of murdering his poor foster-daughter (out of respect for her natural family I am not naming her), however he only apparently had 3 minutes to walk behind his house, bludgeon her to death, then return to his car in which 2 of his daughters were in , remaining calm, before he drove them somewhere, returning later. The police evidence against him appears to rest on disputed forensic evidence, the fact that when he went out the second time it was to buy an item he already had in his garage, the fact that he took a circumlocutious route to buy that item, and the fact that he apparently lied about his qualifications when applying for his job, and because a friend had apparently seen him hit his step-daughter in the past, and acted strangely when the police arrived at the house - apparently he sat in his car outside, and had not called them immediately, anyway. His defence rests on the fact that the forensic evidence is non-conclusive, that he didn`t have enough time to commit such a ferocious murder, that the way he acted when he did when the police came was due to shock at discovering his foster-daughter dead, and that a strange person had been seen prowling about the area near his house (this person was apparently later called in by police but not arrested or charged owing to his mental state). There are several websites about this intriguing case and a campaign for his guilty verdict to be quashed.
Sion Jenkins was sentenced to life imprisonment following a guilty verdict and was the subject of several appeals. At the most recent one, his sentence was not quashed but a re-trial was ordered owing to doubts about the forensic evidence. Whilst on bail awaiting retrial, he apparently remarried - this time to a multi-millionairess. The retrial has now started. ?All very strange? Is this yet another miscarriage of justice or was he indeed guilty of the poor girl`s murder?
