Suruti

So yes, in 2008, they formally apologized, probably pulling their fucking, you know, decades long overdue apology thing out of their fucking file of facts and apologized to Stagg with a public statement of regret and an independent commission.

Hooray, we need an independent commission, klaxon.

Produced a report damning the Met and confirming that they had missed multiple opportunities to get Robert Knapper off the streets and save lives.

An independent report, I'm sure that the Met just shredded because that's all they seem to do with independent reports and all of the suggestions that they make for how to improve.

For years, Colin Stagg was portrayed as the man who got away with murder through a legal loophole.

And it ruined his life.

If it weren't for the advancements in forensic technology and the cold case review in 2002 and the fact that thank fuck they kept those samples, he may have stayed that way.

And Colin has amazingly never blamed the police.

Not publicly, anyway.

He says that he knows that they were just doing their job.

Colin, I think you're being very, very gracious there.

Because they weren't doing their job.

Yeah, and just being like a weird guy in your 30s is a far cry from being somebody who's going to stab a woman to death and rape her in front of their two-year-old child.

He has, however, blamed Paul Britton because Colin thought that he was responsible for the undercover operation, so the whole honey trap situation.

Until, that is, the two of them made a documentary together in the 2000s where Colin decided that Paul Britton was actually quite a nice man.

Paul Britton, on the other hand, has never blamed himself for Colin's plight.

He denies that he had anything to do with the Lizzie James letters and actually says that had the police listened to him when he consulted on the green chain rapes, neither Samantha Bissett nor Rachel Nickell would have died.

Yeah.

I think the problem with this case is that it's

Paul Britton doing his isolated part.