The cops are driving a black maria through the Contempt of Court Act

(I like this line which could apply to the Jimmy Savile controversy)

AS IF the Attorney General didn't have enough to worry about, what with fire-fighting Twitter trolls who overhear something interesting from A Bloke in the Pub and then recycle it as fact, even the cops are now causing him grief by driving a black maria through the Contempt of Court Act.

Some of the recently information included in official police statements and media interviews by senior officers - reported, I assume, with some element of privilege - would have given any newspaper lawyer of my acquaintance the hebee-gebees had they turned up in a reporter's copy. Principal offenders are Greater Manchester Police, who seem to have decided that the alleged crimes of Dale Cregan are so heinous that the substantial risk of serious prejudice simply doesn't apply to him.

www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/cops-are-...h-contempt-court-act