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At last - the Sunday Times wakes up...
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At last - the Sunday Times wakes up... 14 Years, 3 Months ago
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business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6999934.ece
I write regular columns in Inside Time and have complained for years about them accepting these ads prompting and provoking false allegations.
Several times whilst I was in Her Majesty's Estate I personally witnessed inmates sitting round tables picking cases from the local papers about vicars or teachers, making up claims (when they had never even met the men being prosecuted), adding their names to the complaints list with the police and getting compensation cash.
But most important of all, then villains, normally treated as dirt by the law, prisons, media and public, suddenly get victim sympathy and enormous benefits.
False allegations are - as I predicted when it happened to me, the growth industry in the UK.
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Re:At last - the Sunday Times wakes up... 14 Years, 3 Months ago
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The acceptance and tolerance of the false allegation industry brings shame on the United Kingdom. We know it is happening yet we do nothing to stop it. In fact we encourage it. An all party parliamentary committee was set up to to look into the problem of false allegations and, on found that many innocent people may have been convicted, made serious recommendations to the government that safeguards be brought in to protect citizens against wrongful prosecution and conviction. The government's reaction was to suppress those findings and introduce new laws which made it even easier for people to make false claims and for innocent victims of these claims to be given criminal convictions.
I would never have believed that this could happen in my country, or that I would feel so ashamed to have been part of the British system.
Now we have the announcement that "Sarah's Law" might be rolled out nationally. So, an innocent person, false accused for reasons of greed or malice, is pushed through the legal system without need for any genuine evidence against them, they lose reputation, jobs, homes, family and friends, and once finally released from the hell of prison they find that they are branded and hounded for the rest of their lives. Nothing is done to prevent this, and nobody really cares that it happens. Even if the truth does become known, there is no way to repair the damaged lives. Society tut tuts and then shrugs it's shoulders and buys yet another Sunday paper to read about yet another similar case. It does not just continue, it actually gets worse.
Soon there will be mandatory life sentences for anyone accused of a sex offence, without evidence, and internment for those with previous sentences who are still on the register. And the nation will applaud, oblivious to the fact that if we allow our neighbours to railroaded into a wrongful imprisonment, we allow for the possibility that it could also happen to us.
Yet still the thirst for blood prevails. And we appoint embittered relatives of victims to dictate laws.
If we are a "Broken Society" then this is the real reason.
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