On 6 June 1972 the Cologne Regional Court convicted the applicant on seven counts of joint aggravated robbery.

The case concerned the applicant’s complaint about the excessive length of his pre-trial detention on suspicion of theft, robberies committed with extreme brutality and membership of a criminal gang, and

Th.A. de Roos, a lawyer practising in Amsterdam.        The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.

The robber took 22,256 United States dollars (USD) from her currency exchange shop. 3.

Its militants also committed bank robberies and kidnappings.

He offered an alibi in response to a claim that he had been involved in a robbery at a bookmaking premises, which the police declined to accept.

The thrust of the applicant's case was that he was discussing robberies and did not accede to H.'s efforts to channel their conversation into a discussion of the murder.

He attempted to rob them, threatening them with a TT pistol and firing into the ceiling, but the victims resisted and the applicant ran away.

The investigations revealed the alleged continuous criminal activity of six persons considered to have been accomplices in numerous thefts and robberies.

On that fateful day Mr M. and the second robber Artur Shilbergis came to Mr Pr.’s home. [They] began banging on the door. The man did not open.

    The case concerns the alleged unfairness of criminal proceedings against the applicant in which he was convicted of robbery resulting in death, attempted murder and illegal possession of

    On 6 September 1999 the applicant was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery.

    On 19 November 2002 the applicant was arrested on suspicion of forgery of documents as well as armed robbery and drug trafficking, committed in an organised criminal group.

the rapid response unit then continued physically assaulting him, chained his handcuffs to some exercise equipment, pinched his nose and sprayed tear gas into his mouth to force him to confess to robberies

    The applicant was arrested on 26 January 2001 on suspicion of having committed a series of armed robberies as a member of an organised criminal group.

    On 15 March 2002 the applicant was indicted on the charge of having committed 5 counts of armed robbery in an organised armed group before the Płock Regional Court.

On 28 March 1997 he was also charged with taking part in the robbery. 18.     On 8 April 1997 the investigator sent the ballistics evidence seized at the crime scene for testing. 19 .

In March 1994 the applicant was suspected by police officers in the Cambridge Constabulary of involvement in robbery.

The applicant was charged with setting up a criminal gang and running its activity, several accounts of aggravated theft with the use of violence, attempted robbery with the use of violence and burglary