Crown Prosecution Service

February 3, 2026

Builder and fraudster identified as potential suspect

Reading Time: 5 minutesA professional builder who once rented an apartment from Sami Alexander in Hemel Hempstead has been flagged as a person of interest in relation to his former landlord’s murder in 2009. The now 60-year-old had just been released from prison when he met Sami, having served time for stabbing a...

December 3, 2021

Dither and Delay over Miscarriages of Justice Inquiry Findings

Reading Time: 7 minutesWhen the Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice published the findings of its inquiry into the Criminal Cases Review Commission (‘In the Interests of Justice’) on 5 March 2021, it made over 40 recommendations. Whilst the vast majority of these were directed at the CCRC, 9 of the recommendations made...

Mark’s Tutor at University

“Mark was one of my personal tutees and also a student in two of my classes during 2008. I would describe him as articulate, intelligent, ambitious, mature, charming, sociable and likeable. He was a keen student in ‘Copyright & Design’, who regularly contributed to class discussion and seemed very interested in this area of law. We discussed copyright law outside of class a couple of times, particularly its application to virtual reality and ‘Second Life’ scenarios, not least because of his previous experience at IBM before starting law school and his business enterprise relating to web design.

Mark was concerned how he would perform in the exams, given that his work had been severely disrupted in the second Semester of 2008”

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Builder and fraudster identified as potential suspect

Dither and Delay over Miscarriages of Justice Inquiry Findings

Mark’s Tutor at University

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