November 2000:
A single recent enquiry in the high unemployment, 1980s-closed mines area of south Wales found more than 500 alleged 'suspects' via 'trawling'. A highly 'suspect' police method, piloted in the late-1980s by the North Wales and Cheshire forces, care homes enquiries.
'Trawling' relies, not on traditional 'complaints received', but on proactive police contacting hundreds, or thousands of, often unemployed people to ask if they were, often long-ago 'victims'.
While also hinting at considerable compensation payments available on convictions via the CICA/Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. Plus, fat-fees from profiteering media, blagged, in paid-contact with police. Police Forces also 1980s perversely re-branded a 'Service'.
The word of such an industrialised 'rape of justice', has now spread to all of the many vast low-income areas in Britain, with predictable dog-eat-dog, dire results.
Specialist defence lawyer, Chris Saltrese, denounces 'trawling' as a "begging bowl...hunt for allegations". Often untaped, early interviews produce 'prejuducially primed' statements. Then falsely claimed by police as 'similar fact evidence'. But such statements are in fact just 'similar allegations', often far too similar to be reliable as any form of traditional British evidence.
Some suspects identified this way are genuine offenders. But 'trawling' is a blunt weapon, producing far too many lives destroyed in families and communites including many children losing male-relatives. Destroyed by increasing numbers of mob rule media Witch Hunts, wrongful convictions, and mass miscarriages of justice.
All in a postwar, supposed modern Free Democracy.
www.innocent.org.uk/cases/royshuttleworth/index.html
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