Admission of confessions in evidence Section 76 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 provides as follows: “(1)In any proceedings a confession made by an accused person may be given in evidence

    The applicants’ arrest and initial investigative actions 6.

According to a forensic medical conclusion of 16 September 2008, B. had been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and could not understand the consequences of his actions.

In July 2004 and at another unspecified date the applicant confirmed his confessions in writing.

The court based its findings on the applicant’s confession and other self-incriminating statements given throughout the pre-trial investigation, the results of a number of forensic examinations in the

the applicant’s statements/confessions)?

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He retracted his initial confession as allegedly obtained under psychological pressure. 15.

On 2 July 2008 the applicant wrote a confession admitting the murder. On 3 July 2008 investigator Kh. interviewed the applicant in the presence of counsel Y.

The applicant also wrote that his confession had not been made under duress. 10.

    The relevant provisions read as follows: Article 136 (Extortion of Confession) “1.

  The Court pointed out inter alia that in his confession the applicant gave a detailed description of the crime.

only the confession, not the reasons given.

          Two months later, on 18 January 1988, he revoked his confession alleging that it had been extorted by the police.

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The Regional Court noted that at the preliminary stage the applicant had admitted the actions for which he had been indicted and that in the course of the trial proceedings he had denied his confession

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Two ex-members of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), who were working at the time as “confessors” for the authorities, were also present.

A request for records of investigative actions had been sent to the Nizhniy Novgorod Regional Court.