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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Joobo Complains to the BBC

We here at Joobo, angered over the BBC's coverage of the Roger Keith Coleman story a few weeks back, were spurred on to complain to the BBC after reading on one of our favorite sites, The American Expatriate, that the site owner regularly complains to the BBC and gets responses.

So, we submitted the following complaint to the BBC this evening:

My name is Simon Lazarus. I wish to complain about your coverage of the case of Roger Keith Coleman, the rapist and murderer executed in the US state of Virginia in 1992. Recently, the BBC's website covered the testing of DNA in the case by Governor Mark Warner.

Your story, featured as US governor orders DNA guilt test, talked about the DNA testing, but unlike other sites which covered the case, you left out any quotes from the prosecutor, and also other evidence which pinpointed Coleman, and not any other suspect, as the rapist and murderer.

For instance, CNN's story, featured as DNA to decide if innocent man was executed, noted:

"Tom Scott, who helped prosecute the case, said he has no objection to retesting the DNA and is confident doing so would confirm Coleman's guilt -- provided the sample has been properly preserved and not tampered with.

"If the integrity of the sample has been violated in some way, we're going to have an inconclusive result, which isn't going to settle anything," he said.

Scott said a mountain of evidence points to Coleman as the killer:

There was no sign of forced entry at McCoy's house, leading investigators to believe she knew her attacker.

Coleman was previously convicted of the attempted rape of a teacher and was charged with exposing himself to a librarian two months before the murder.

A pubic hair found on McCoy's body was consistent with Coleman's hair.

The original DNA tests placed him within a tiny fraction of the population who could have left semen at the scene.

Coleman also failed a lie detector test hours before his execution."

Your site failed to mention any of this, leading any reasonable reader to consider that an innocent man was, indeed, put to death.

However, just days later, the DNA testing showed that Coleman was the true killer, and that he had been convicted and put to death quite properly.

The BBC waited more than a day after the evidence came back to report on the story - and again you only reported on half the story.

Your story, featured as Tests reveal executed man's guilt, noted:

"DNA tests have confirmed the guilt of a man who was executed in the US in 1992 whilst proclaiming his innocence.

Virginia state's outgoing governor, Mark Warner, had ordered the tests on Roger Coleman, who was put to death for raping and murdering his sister-in-law.

Anti-death penalty advocates had hoped this would be the first case of DNA testing exonerating an executed man.

The test results are a blow to those who supported Coleman and to the anti-death penalty movement in general.

A forensic laboratory in Toronto concluded there was virtually no doubt that the DNA recovered from the body of the victim, Wanda McCoy, belonged to Coleman."

How "anti-death penalty advocates" MAY HAVE reacted is irrelevant. How the evidence that nailed this man outside the DNA was again excluded from your report.

The BBC needs to put aside its obvious bias against capital punishment - and, by extension, its hatred of President George W. Bush because, as Governor of Texas he oversaw numerous executions (as did Bill Clinton when he was the Governor of Arkansas, a point many anti-Bush stories miss).

I am submitting this complaint because your stories need to include ALL of the evidence behind the story, not the half which fits the BBC bias.

Yours,

Simon Lazarus
Miami, Florida


As soon as we get a response (or if we get one), we will post it here.

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