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Official Reports In 1976, in the UK, the Devlin committee was formed to investigate the reliability of eyewitness testimony, the Devlin committee released its findings in the Devlin report; The Devlin committee looked into a number of cases that had been proven as wrongful convictions due to eyewitnesses misidentification, these cases ranged from 1908 - 1972. Several of the cases that lead to the Devlin committee being formed were the cases of, Alfred Beck, Oscar Slater, Luke Dougherty and Laszlo Virag; Even though the Devlin committee found that a number of eyewitnesses had misidentified suspects as the culprits, the committee reported that the findings did not warrant eyewitness testimony from being disallowed. However the Report did recommend that statutory safeguards should be implemented, but the government took no action. Professor Glanville Williams, one of the Devlin committee members, reported that "Neither the Beck case at the turn of the century nor the...

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