The rights, wrongs and consequences of the landmark Morrison ruling
Unpicking the consequences of the verdict in the Our Little Sister case will take months, but a few things are immediately clear following Friday's disciplinary panel verdict which in effect exonerates Hughie Morrison.
First and foremost, the panel's conclusion that it was unlikely that Morrison or anyone under his control injected Our Little Sister with an anabolic steroid was fair and sound. Morrison had no motive to dope such a low-grade filly, there was no evidence she had ever been doped before and she was sent racing repeatedly during the period when nandrolone was in her system.
Furthermore, Morrison invested considerable time and money in proving his innocence, paying for a hair sample, engaging scientists and a private investigator, and offering a £10,000 reward for information about who had actually pressed the plunger. The panel rightly concluded these were not the actions of a guilty man.
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Published on 22 December 2017inNews
Last updated 18:30, 22 December 2017
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