Thursday, December 18, 2008

In tonight's programme

 BBC Daily E-mail  Other e-mail newsletters
THURSDAY 18 DECEMBER 22:30 GMT - BBC TWO
FROM KIRSTY WARK

Hello,

BABYSITTER
We begin tonight with the story of Suzanne Holdsworth, following her acquittal today of the killing of two year old Kyle Fisher at a retrial. Suzanne Holdsworth spent three years in jail for a murder she did not commit. It was a Newsnight investigation in December of last year that first raised doubts about her guilt, when the journalist John Sweeney revealed the shortcomings of the medical evidence in the case. His film led directly to the quashing of her conviction at the Court of Appeal, and hence to a retrial. Tonight we tell the story of this dreadful miscarriage of justice - the shocking failures of the pathologist in the case and the inadequacies in the investigation by Cleveland Police.

GHAFFUR
We have a special end of year interview with Tarique Ghaffur who was until his resignation this year from the Metropolitan Police, Britain?s most senior Asian police officer. In June he accused the Met of racial discrimination - what does he think of the force now?

POLITICS
And we look back on the political year and at the extraordinary way the economic crisis swept away everything that had gone before it - and we'll hear from our panel of political insiders Danny Finkelstein, Olly Grender and Peter Hyman.

Missed Newsnight?
Click here to watch online

Newsnight Blog
Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs:
CLICK HERE





 DON'T MISS

John Sweeney's original report for Newsnight which first cast doubt on the evidence against babysitter Suzanne Holdsworth convicted of killing baby Kyle Fisher.

For the latest on this story join us tonight at 22.30

SEARCH BBC NEWS
To make changes or cancel your newsletter visit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/email/newsnight

To sign up for other newsletters or the personalised BBC Daily E-mail visit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/email

If you have an editorial related comment, e-mail mailto:newsnight@bbc.co.uk?subject=email

Problems with links? For help with this service visit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/email/help

If you are experiencing technical difficulties not covered by the FAQs, e-mail mailto:dailyemail@bbc.co.uk

Copyright BBC

Your cOmment"s Here! Hover Your cUrsOr to leave a cOmment.


Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)