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TOPIC: Barry Bennell
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Barry Bennell 6 Years, 1 Month ago
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Again I, like you, have no idea whether he is innocent or guilty of the charges against him (or even, in these days of plea bargaining, of the offences he has admitted). But it seems sensible that he has no defence. It is virtually impossible to prove you didn't do something years ago, especially when there is no evidence produced that you did. Unless you believe (like the police and CPS) that nobody ever lies or is mistaken. And, like the law, accept one person's word as evidence. Yes, he could go into the dock and rip witnesses apart, exposing their various crimes (I'm sure there are many - from minor breaches of drug laws, driving offences and so on to more serious ones; easily discovered by a decent PI) but when the guy is unable to eat after serious operations, why bother? He cannot beat the system; he is almost dead; give up the will to live. Why bother?
www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-534...nce-abuse-trial.html
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Re:Barry Bennell 6 Years, 1 Month ago
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JK, I'm not sure whether you have to be careful with any of this as the trial is going on, but the following information is easily accessible through a quick search for his name, so I hope I'm not causing any problems.
This all seems incredibly vindictive.
As far as I can tell, he's done time on both sides of the Atlantic. The first of his (now) three UK trials did not cover all the known accusations - he was tried and found guilty of twenty-odd offences, whilst another twenty-odd were left to lay on file. Having served his time for these offences he was sentenced again in 2015 for activities during the same period as his initial UK trial. And now he's being 'got' again for offences, again, during that same period.
If someone had gone down for a sample 20 burglaries during a decade-long career, done his time, and started to rebuild his life, could we then go back and try him again, and again, each time he picked himself up, for other burglaries committed during the same period as the original offences? Is this not cruel and unusual punishment?
I would think the last thing the poor man wants is to attempt a defence. Presumably he’s on suicide watch so that we can be sure he doesn’t ‘evade justice’. And now we’re making him watch his own trial on a television.
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