…British Police admits infraction
THE James Ibori London trial developed a new twist at the weekend as the British Police paid Ibori’s former counsel, Mr. Bhadresh Gohil £20,000 in an out of court settlement.
Gohil, former UK lawyer to Ibori, received the settlement from the Crown Prosecution Service after being unlawfully deprived of his liberty, over the Ibori case.
The extraordinary payment is just the latest twist in a legal case that has led to investigations into allegations of police corruption and a cover-up of key evidence”.
All the investigators and the prosecutors in the Ibori case as well as all of its associated cases, especially the lead prosecutor, Ms. Sasha Wass, Queen’s Counsel (QC the British equivalent of Senior Advocate of Nigeria) have been dropped..
The two central prosecutors in the case; Sasha Wass QC and Esther Schutzer-Weissmann were unceremoniously dismissed from the Ibori case in March 2016. The case was removed from the Met Police and handed to the National Crime Agency. All the original investigating officers have all been removed from the case.
Last week the Police paid Gohil for an infringement committed last November. He was expected to be released then but less than a week before the release date, prosecution barrister Sasha Wass, successfully applied for this to be revoked and Gohil was detained for three more weeks. So Gohil went to court and accused the Prosecution of blatant lies to mislead the court.
Gohil, who has been seeking to have his convictions overturned since 2012, has been the target of an on-going smear campaign by the Met police and the Crown Prosecution to derail the Appeal.