Article here.
It’s that last sentence that particularly interests me. They failed to disclose evidence that would have immediately exhonorated the teacher. Should the police and prosecutors themselves be prosecuted for attempting to pervert the course of justice?
And the teacher spent much of his pension clearing his name. Should he be compensated?
What else should happen?
Well, there is clearly a civil case here. The problem with charging them with a crime though is it can make things really messy for the prosecutors. If a prosecutor has to worry about being charged with a crime for failure to prosecute an alleged crime properly, it might make them gun shy and not want to prosecute any case that isn’t an easy win.
The end result of course being lots of victims never getting justice because prosecutors are too afraid to follow through with the case.
Prosecutor and cops should be fired, teacher should get a big payout in compensation.
I agree. Prosecutors should have plenty of cases to work, they shouldn’t take iffy cases to court, let alone ones like this. This is a dereliction of duty on the prosecutor’s end. It’s less clear with any police detectives, but even they should say at some point “this guy didn’t do it, pack it in”.
We definitely should make prosecutors “gun shy” about charging people with crimes when the prosecutor knowingly possesses evidence that the crime either didn’t happen or the person they are charging didn’t do it.
There are a bunch of cases of British prosecutors doing this due to political pressure to get more rape and sexual-assault convictions. There is now a pushback against it.
There was a case not long ago where a Game of Thrones actress accused a man of sexually assaulting her with his hands at a train station. It went all the way to trial where he was exonerated due to camera footage showing he walked past her without stopping.
And yet, the paper does not name the actress who falsely accused an innocent man.
Such is the world we live in. :smack: