I have read the opinions above and am shocked how aggressive and dirty language people use to refer to one another here.
I have read a couple of comments. Many of you require sources of facts. Actually, when I was looking for them, I found the main two: Exeter's Echo and the Polish press. I have found the Echo's reports biased and missing some facts. The Polish press was inacurate in many things and biased too.
You might find interesting the interview on radio with the defence lawyers (Paplaczyk and Wiza) quating also the British lawyer Mr. Langdon I have found. This is its website address: radiomerkury.pl/dzwieki/obroncy_jakuba_studio.mp3
It is in Polish so let me summarise some of the points there. By each of them I put some of your previous opinions put here before (in some cases wrong unfortunately):
UKE wrote:
The jury was isolated for the entire process in a hotel miles from Exeter.
According to the lawyers in the interview the jury were at their homes
Jakub wrote:
Also, British Police were not looking for a Exeter shirt, Jakub had been identifed (by his sister, employer) and they were looking for the clothes he admitted to wearing that night. Jakub admitted to what he was wearing and the Police were looking for his red shirt.
Interview: police was looking for the different shirt in Jakub's home. They did not seek for the one they asked in the court. The prosecution had the other Jakub's clothes
UKE wrote:
The 'sperm taken too late' line has been fed to you by the Polish press, none of whom where at the trial.
Interview: Doubts about the procedure of taking the sperm and serious procedural doubts about the procedure of taking Jakub's DNA. Mr. Langdon's opinion: Judge should have reject it (Important case of South African and the standpoint of The House of the Lords). I think some of you here (Doctor?) mentioned it.
The other points in the interview:
1/Lithaunian guy and the head of the porters in the hotel gave Jakub some alibi (though quationable by prosecution)
2/the lawyers mentioned "the other traces" on Jane's clothes and body but it was unspecific of them and put in the complex context.
3/Defence asked for formal rejection of DNA test (inprocedural and doubts) which excluded retesting
4/Defence (Mr. Langdon) asked the judge to tell the jury that they should not follow the local press but the judge did not do it. He just repeated generally that they should be objective and concentrated only on what they know about the case from the court.
I want to add that I also heard (in the press) about the offer of prosecution to give up the charge of the attack and harm instead of the voluntarily confession of the rape itself. The defence is said to have rejected that. That is also true that the prosecution gave up the accusation of the murder.
I could not find specific information about fingernails or obstacles to show other evidences in the court by the defence.
That's all. In my opinion DNA test if done propely is a hard evidence.
However I find a lot of doubts about the case as well.