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[b]steveimp wrote:[/b]
[quote]A friend of mine was in the local paper (and website) when he was up on court 'on suspicion of failing to inform authorities of a change of circumstances' .  The article printed his name, address, age, all the usual information.

A month later, back in court, the case was thrown out by the Magistrates because - as they found going through the evidence and acknowledged by the prosecution - my friend HAD informed authorities correctly and the incompetence of one of the authorities 'investigators' had caused all these problems.

Did the local paper print a retraction?  No.  Did they remove the article from the website?  Only after my friend's solicitor threatened them with legal action and it was done 'with great reluctancy'.  The newspaper was only interested in the 'bad news' which will get the reactionary idiots posting about 'the welfare state'.  They were not interested in the truth.
  
On that score, I'm against people being named prior to conviction.[/quote]

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Topic History of: I'm not necessarily against police/media publication of arrests
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hedda	imo wrote: honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote: JK2006 wrote: It's called Crimewatch Honey. Do they name accused and ask if anyone else has been raped? I haven't seen it for about twenty-five years. I think it tends to be more 'have you seen this man?' 'police are looking for this man in connection with', 'we are looking for anyone with any information about such and such an incident' etc... Rather than 'have you been a victim of this man?', I don't think i've seen that before. I have...in the newspapers and on TV every day. The police appealing in many differing ways (except on Crime Watch)...."are you too a brave victim ?...then come forward"...usually right after a famous BBC celebrity has been arrested and paraded before the media.
imo	honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote: JK2006 wrote: It's called Crimewatch Honey. Do they name accused and ask if anyone else has been raped? I haven't seen it for about twenty-five years. I think it tends to be more 'have you seen this man?' 'police are looking for this man in connection with', 'we are looking for anyone with any information about such and such an incident' etc... Rather than 'have you been a victim of this man?', I don't think i've seen that before.
hedda	the proof and facts are- the police simply cannot be trusted. there should provision for the accused to be able to request anonymity for the reason the police will act like cheap publicists and invite accusers in sex cases.
honey!oh sugar sugar.	JK2006 wrote: It's called Crimewatch Honey. Do they name accused and ask if anyone else has been raped? I haven't seen it for about twenty-five years.
JK2006	It's called Crimewatch Honey.