Further reaction to Phil Shiner sentencing

Disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner yesterday avoided jail after pursuing British soldiers over fake war crimes.  Shiner received a suspended sentence after admitting to three counts of fraud.

Reflecting on the verdict, Hilary Meredith-Beckham said:

"The court couldn’t take into account the catastrophic, snowballing effect of Shiner's fraudulent actions on thousands of shattered lives and military careers.  

"All those members of the legal system who sent character letters in support of Shiner should hang their heads in shame.

"This man drummed up business by paying fixers to find cases and profited from it by lying to the Legal Aid Agency in what the Judge called a thoroughly dishonest fashion.

"Furthermore,  the MoD who employed and trained all those falsely accused, didn’t stand by them in what the parliamentary select committee called a vote of rot within the MoD itself.

"They should compensate those who were wrongly and maliciously accused."