Cosslett & Barr Forensic Document Examination

10/08/2024

My part of the case completed in July 2021, sentenced in July 2024. This is becoming more and more common - justice delayed is justice denied.
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David Eggleton splashed out on cars and holidays when he became his aunt's power of attorney.

18/07/2024

This follows from the Sky Documentary The Wimbledon Kidnapping in which I had a small part looking at documents from the original trial.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67981800

The search for a body continues decades after she was abducted, mistaken for Rupert Murdoch’s wife.

28/01/2024

My first court attendance of 2024

David Eggleton's fraud was discovered after payments to the woman's care home kept bouncing.

21/06/2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65950816

Experts say there aren't enough duty solicitors - causing delays in courts, in police stations and to victims.

15/06/2023

examiners do not just deal with Wills and Personal Guarantees, sometimes they are required for tragic cases such as this one.

Alfie Steele, 9, was repeatedly dunked head first into a cold bath as part of a discipline regime.

27/02/2023

One of our cases in the news.

A woman who used her position as business manager to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds from the school which employed her has been found guilty of four counts of fraud following a trial at Guildford Crown Court.

11/01/2023

This case was delivered today so that we can take our VSC80 on a roadtrip for an out-of-office examination. examiner

04/01/2023

Forensic handwriting expert Stephen Coslett told the court he compared them to handwriting samples from Mr Ramzan and Ms Williams.
He said that in his opinion, the similarities to Ms Williams' writing "provide strong evidence" she wrote them.
He added that while he "couldn't exclude the possibility someone who writes in a similar style was responsible... I consider that to be unlikely".

Eleanor Williams, 22, claimed she had been trafficked by Asian gang and made false r**e allegations

28/11/2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63779904

The star charged $600 for "hand-signed" editions of his latest book, but all was not as it seemed.

04/11/2022

An interesting story that i had not heard before

The letters at the heart of the Seaside Mystery were sent to Swan (and, later, to others) just after Easter 1920, with 'cow' and 'bloody' initially being the worst insults.

18/10/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/18/uk-justice-system-ill-equipped-for-rise-in-say-mps

Justice select committee calls Action Fraud ‘unfit for purpose’ as number of victims rises 25% in two years

23/09/2022

Some weekend reading....

Years of typing and texting have taken their toll. But studies show that we learn and remember more when we write by hand