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Topic History of: Robert Napper, Colin Stagg, Rachel Nickell...
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veritas |
Having just read a book by investigative journalist Richard Shears from the Daily Mail about the Peter Falconio disappearance in the Northern Territory it appears to me (as Shears points out) that it's highly possible an innocent man has again been jailed for the murder of Falconio-and his body hasn'r even been found.
It also brings up the double edged sword of DNA. DNA has recently righted a lot of wrongs but Bradley Murdoch was convicted purely on 2 drops of his DNA under highly suspect circumstances.
All the other evidence changed from first interviews until the final trial ie: a red setter dog changed to a black and white dalamation when Murdoch was arrested and police realised he had a dalamation.
Similarities with the McCanns as well. The backpacker tourist market in Australia is it's biggest moneyspinner and government offcials were terrified the NT would have a reputation if a killer was out on the loose.
DNA-it can free the innocent but may jail the innocent as well. |
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The Cat |
Edmund Burke was right. Evil is allowed to triumph because we say that people are only doing their job, and we fail to protest when the need arises. So innocent people suffer, some serve jail time, some break down or commit suicide, and some are shot on the underground, while nobody is held to account because those responsible were doing a difficult job and only following orders. |
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zooloo |
JC wrote:
"doing her job" is an age old excuse employed by a lot of nasty so'n'so's; the guards at Belson for example.
Doing your job, or obeying orders, does not absolve you of any responsibility. Even if Stagg had been guilty this was a very underhand method of setting him up, this being the reason why the judge threw out the case. It was an unlawful 'sting' operation. The woman officer must have known there was something fishy about it, but she carried on regardless.
On the other hand, even if it had been legal and she was just "doing her job", why should she deserve compensation? Didn't she know what her job might involve? Police officers have to deal with some nasty people. If they can't cope with that, they should not enlist. All things considered, she made her own decision.
She had been trained to trust the decisions of her superior officers.
For good or bad, that is necessary.
The fault was not hers, she didn't direct the operation. Insulting may suggest an hostile narrow view of the sort that is condemned on this forum.
Why compensation? She went to extraordinary lengths to do what she saw as her duty as a police officer (Rightly or wrongly, she was acting in good faith.)
Extraordinary efforts deserve extraordinary reward. |
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Donald |
If this Napper guy is convicted, Stagg can expect to pocket a six figure compensation package from the met and up to |
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JC |
"doing her job" is an age old excuse employed by a lot of nasty so'n'so's; the guards at Belson for example.
Doing your job, or obeying orders, does not absolve you of any responsibility. Even if Stagg had been guilty this was a very underhand method of setting him up, this being the reason why the judge threw out the case. It was an unlawful 'sting' operation. The woman officer must have known there was something fishy about it, but she carried on regardless.
On the other hand, even if it had been legal and she was just "doing her job", why should she deserve compensation? Didn't she know what her job might involve? Police officers have to deal with some nasty people. If they can't cope with that, they should not enlist. All things considered, she made her own decision. |
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