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Yes sadly I was missing the excellent actor when I tried 16 years ago with Vile Pervert; The musical - mind you that's now had over 5 million views. But seems to have done nothing.
Sadly I think the lesson here is whatever you do will be ignored thanks to mass apathy unless you can turn your and others awful experience into a four part drama starring an excellent lead actor and get it run on TV after a future Christmas holiday…
Green Man
JK2006 wrote: Latest - police investigate FRAUD. But why does it take a TV show to highlight this? I gather charges of Attempting to Pervert andPerjury may soon happen but why so long? And why does media keep calling the Post Office fiasco "the worst miscarriage of justice in British history"??? The False Allegations Industry has been FAR larger, far more lethal, far more widespread. Oh, I suppose because only a tiny percentage have been exposed. That's alright then. NO IT IS NOT!!!
Both the Post Office and false allegations are vile. The courts are now on the Post Office bandwagon, yes the Post Office Sub-post Masters need compensation and their names cleared. The Met are on the bandwagon again I see.
I like to know how the government are going to Andrew Malkinson his 20 years back!
I think our criminal justice system has become in many areas concerningly divorced from concepts such as due process, blind justice and guilty until proven innocent.
It needs lifting out of the bog of media and political concerns; not only in the selection of prosecutions, but in sentencing.
IPPS are the most cruel and unjustifiable example of this in recent years, and it was shameful that the Government decided recently not to (effectively) release the remaining prisoners through re-sentencing.
There is also a problem with the concept of the victim that urgently needs addressing. You will be believed and even the language of victim, does not procedurally or semantically allow for malicious or deluded allegations.
I think that campaign groups - as you suggest JK - should align. Focus. A disparate approach can only ever lead to small gains in particular areas.
But it is the whole system that needs to renew its vows with the core principals - fought for not just currently but since Magna Carta - of justice.
Until fundamentals are addressed one gain will be followed by something new arising from an unprincipled system.