Last week news
outlets were telling us that the two women, one Irish and the other Scots,
stopped from boarding a flight from Lima Peru to Madrid
with over 24 lbs cocaine worth £1.5 million in their luggage might languish in
jail for three years before their case comes to court. Mentally the tut tuts of the legal profession
could be heard at the Inns of Court. Many
countries have longer pre trial periods than Peru and many defendants are held
on remand in prison. We pride ourselves on
our English system of justice or so we are told. Indeed Justice Secretaries of all hues had
and have as their mantra, “the best justice system in the world” on their desk
as soon as they assume office. Its
removal should be imminent if there were any honour left in that department of
the state.
Much has been
made of the time on police bail spent by some suspected of hacking. But closer to home without scrutiny of
quarterly statistics it is only the occasional news report in local print media
which reveals that in this country innocent people ………and all those charged are
innocent before trial……….are being remanded on bail for unconscionable periods of
time prior to the dropping of charges.
It does not take the imagination of a Booker prize winner to appreciate
the strain which such a circumstance can place upon a person.
The situation at
Gloucester Crown Court and Phillip Davies is not one of which CPS can be
proud. It is probably an inevitable
result of the numbers made redundant at that organisation and tasks being
increasingly performed by incompetent and/or overworked personnel without the
skills for the tasks they have been allotted.
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