On 31 Mar, 15:26, unit743 wrote:
> I think it's disgraceful that anyone should go to prison (or
> equivalent of prison) on the incorroborated word of an 11 year old.
> It's totally barbaric.
How about going to jail on the uncorroborated word of an adult.
Would that be ok?
This guy was lucky and managed to prove his innocence, but it does
seem to be a reversal of the usual standard of guilt having to be
proved:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/31/nlang131.xml
With the government thrashing around to find ways of getting more .
convictions, it does seem that lots of men might not be so lucky in
the future.
And the evil slags sentence of one year seems a bit light, I would
have thought that four or five years would have been more appropriate.
Svenne
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