Lord Justice Treacy said that if Mr James was "removed from the picture", the complainant "is left on her own in asserting an encounter with Mr Harris at the community centre in circumstances where there was a body of evidence to the contrary". The court's view was that the evidence about Mr James "operates to weaken the Crown's case on the important issue of whether Rolf Harris ever attended the community centre in 1969 to the extent that we cannot view the conviction on count one as safe".
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Surely this conclusion also implies that the entire case was contaminated by police behaviour (lack of proper investigation)? If our police are allowed not to examine BOTH SIDES of a false allegation, they will next be calling innocent men and women "perpetrators" and liars "victims". They may even be announcing that criminals WILL BE BELIEVED. It does make policing more easy. "Did you murder this child?". "No". "OK, we believe you".
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