The Norfolk Four: Similarities And Differences

The Norfolk Four are four U.S Navy Sailors who were the suspects of a rape. Derek Tice, Danial Williams, Joseph J. Dick Jr and Eric C. Wilson were all questioned about Michelle Moore-Bosko. After being interrogated for hours, they all confessed to committing crime again Michelle Moore-Bosko. However, as the story progresses, it is unsure whether or not these four men actually did commit the crime. William Bosco, Michelle’s husband, discovered her dead body in the home. Police believed that there was no sign of forced entry and it looked as though there was a single assailant. Looking for a lead, Michelle’s friend Tamicka Taylor pointed to Danial Williams. It was not long for that one lead to change the lives of eight and do the unthinkable.

Both cases have changed the lives of the people involved forever and they will be known as the accusations against them. Although they took places in different countries and different times, the interrogations of the men were brutal. They were interrogated for hours on end and not provided adequate necessities. They were tired, confused and ultimately just wanted everything to be over. Both groups of men had false confessions under the premisses that if they did not confess, the end result would be worse. It was better for them to confess to something they did not do and avoid the consequences they were being promised would happen to

I feel as though in this case, they were treated worse. In one account, Paul Hill recalls, ‘'At one stage they took away my clothes. I was naked but for a pair of handcuffs. I was shown pictures of bodies in the mortuary. I was brutalized and threatened. I was dragged around the police station by my hair. One of the people who joined in the beating was head of the bomb squad - who helped beat me down a flight of stairs. I had not a lucid thought in my head’' (Toolis, 1990). I think something like this would not go over well in the states. It seems as though in England, the legal system expects its victims to be tough and they deserve any form of punishment. Where as here, there is corruption, but it seems more regulated. Difference in the case includes the victims in the attacks. In the Norfolk Four, a woman somehow related to one of the men, was killed and raped. Omar’s attack on Michelle Moore-Bosko was more of a planned attack it seems rather than him just going out and doing it to anyone. In the event of the bombings in Guilford, Surrey, it was a random attack on who died. It was just whoever was there was there and they were the ones to get attacked. Although both were tragedies, Michelle Moore-Bosko knew her attacker and in the pub in Surrey, it was a random