AVB Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 In the news today Every single person prosecuted for flouting the Coronavirus Act was wrongly charged, with police making blunders over hundreds of cases. The Crown Prosecution Service admitted yesterday that of the 232 charged so far under the laws brought in last March, all were incorrect. In many cases officers muddled up the law, which allows them to remove or detain a ‘suspected infectious person’ for screening, with separate Health Protection Regulations, which say you cannot be outside of your home without a reasonable excuse. A further 116 prosecutions under these latter regulations also had to be withdrawn, meaning that of the 1,252 charges brought under either act, 348 – or 28 per cent – were wrong. The scale of the unlawful prosecutions – revealed in a CPS review – has shocked lawyers and campaigners. Human rights lawyer Kirsty Brimelow QC, who analysed the wrongful prosecutions, called them a ‘systemic failure’ resulting from police and ministers ‘mixing up law and guidance’. The National Police Chiefs Council said many of the cases with ‘admin errors’ that are corrected in court. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Admin errors or unlawful detention 🤔 Wait and see when the defendants take them to court / counter claim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Perhaps most alarming of all, it comes as absolutely no surprise. No law is infinitely more preferable than bad law, compound that with bad law badly policed and there is an inevitable outcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted January 22, 2021 Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 They should have had Starmer back as head of the CPS he would have it sorted out. I was a serving police officer when the CPS first started and took over all prosecutions. We lost so many cases due to incompetance on their part compared to when our Chief Inspector did the court presentation. I doubt it has improved. It obviously has not improved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted January 22, 2021 Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 Its got worse. Far far worse. They are refusing charge on even pretty simple things. Presumably as they have too much on and the courts have a back log. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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