`  :::::::::You're getting there, but not quite there yet, since the relevant passage only reads: ``The convictions were quashed four years later on the grounds that confessions to police officers had been improperly admitted in evidence.`` :::::::::Since you're quite close to the Strand, why don't you pop round to the Judges Library near the Bear Garden and ask for a day pass for research purposes? Tell them you're contributing to an encyclopedia article and want to get your facts straight....(kiwiexile at DMOZ)  • `