Satish Sekar

Satish Sekar
Born	(1963-09-21) September 21, 1963 (age 62) London, England, United Kingdom, UK
Education	Thames Polytechnic
Occupations	Author, journalist and consultant in forensic evidence
Notable work	Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry

Satish C. Sekar is a British author and journalist, and a consultant in forensic evidence. Sekar has specialised since the 1990s in the investigation of miscarriages of justice. His work has been published in newspapers including The Guardian , The Independent and Private Eye , and he has also worked for television documentaries including Panorama and Trial and Error.

Early life

Sekar was educated at Reynolds High School, Acton, and Thames Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich), where he studied sociology. ^[1] He has one brother, Chandra Sekar, a barrister.

Career

In 1992, Sekar's work helped overturn the convictions of the Cardiff Three, and while researching for a book about the case, Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry, he uncovered errors in the original evaluation of forensic evidence from the crime scene. His submissions to the Home Office about the DNA evidence were instrumental in getting the case reopened and the eventual extraction of a DNA profile which led to the arrest and conviction of the real killer, Jeffrey Gafoor, in 2003. ^[2] The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology said that Sekar's "extraordinary work on the case of the Cardiff 3 [put] academic criminology to shame." ^[3]

In 2010, Sekar founded The Fitted-In Project, a not-for-profit organisation that conducts projects on justice issues that have not had the attention they deserve. ^[4]

Bibliography

• Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry (1997)
• The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt (2012) (Waterside Books)
• The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt (2017) (2nd edition) (Waterside Books)
• Trials and Tribulations: Innocence Matters? (2017)
• Forensic Pathology: Preventing Wrongs (2019)
• Bad Form: How Tariffs Protect the Guilty and Punish the Innocent (forthcoming)

References

1. Campbell, Duncan (17 September 2012). "The Cardiff Three: the long wait for justice". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
2. "The Lynette White Case: How advances in DNA tests can trap killers from tiny clues". Western Mail . Cardiff. 5 July 2003. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
3. Dixon, David (1 December 2003). "Police Reform: Building Integrity". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology . Archived from the original on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
4. "We collectively fight for your right to justice | Satish Sekar". The FittedIn Project. Retrieved 4 May 2025.

External links

• The Fitted-In Project — Campaign group founded by Satish Sekar and dedicated to highlighting miscarriages of justice and promoting policy changes in the criminal justice system.