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| Bogus forensic expert convicted | |
| 2007-02-21 | |
| I think I saw that in "Law and Order". A man who worked fraudulently as a forensic psychologist for almost 30 years has been convicted of deception. Gene Morrison, 48, left school with no qualifications but gave evidence as an "expert" in hundreds of court cases, many of which must now be re-assessed. He was convicted at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court of 20 charges of deception. Morrison, of Hyde, who was described as a charlatan, had denied conning judges, solicitors and police over decades.
Morrison's firm, Criminal and Forensic Investigations Bureau (CFIB), was hired by legal firms, insurance companies and private businesses to give evidence in court. He also gave evidence from the witness box and wrote reports, many of which he had copied from the internet. About 700 cases in which he gave evidence are now being re-assessed to look for possible miscarriages of justice. Morrison was found guilty of 18 offences including obtaining a money transfer by deception, obtaining property by deception, perverting the course of justice and perjury. He admitted a further two charges. The guilty verdicts followed two days of deliberation by the jury. He was cleared of one count of obtaining a money transfer by deception after the four-week trial. The jury is continuing to deliberate on a single count of intending to pervert the course of justice and another of attempting to obtain property by deception. Judge Jeffrey Lewis remanded Morrison in custody while the jury continued deliberating on the outstanding counts. | |
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