7 Quotes by James Lockyer

Dr. Blake and Dr. Butt told us that there's absolutely nothing of forensic value in Lynne Harper's grave and, frankly, they never expected it, and neither did I. They certainly told me in advance that nothing would be found. I think it was really a matter of common sense that it wouldn't be.

As a human being you thought the wrong man might be in jail, ... You might have saved him 12 more years in prison. How can you explain that nothing was done?

This is a familiar problem: people spending years in jail for crimes that didn't happen as a result of erroneous pathology.

Once again we have a man who's spent a lot of time in jail - 12 1/2 years in his case - not just for a crime he didn't commit, but for a crime that never happened,

I hope I haven't got a battle on my hands. The attorney general of Ontario can consent to his release,

And I am hoping that he will do that perhaps as soon as Thursday of this week.

All we have now is a sort of a piecemeal examination of a case here and case there primarily brought forward by our organization. It's just not good enough.