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Re: The other side of vigilantism
Interesting story in the Coventry Telegraph
Quote:
A Coventry man accused of trying to meet a 15-year-old girl after allegedly grooming her over the internet has had the case against him thrown out.
A judge at Coventry Crown Court has ruled that it was impossible for the 33-year-old man to have a fair trial.....
....Recorder Patrick Upward QC questioned how it could proceed when, as he had heard, ‘three of the parties to the entrapment’ had refused to give evidence and in view of comments made by a police officer in the case.
And following an adjournment for him to consider the submissions and legal arguments, he said he was satisfied the Crown and the police had ‘acted appropriately.’
“However, the evidential gaps are such that it is impossible for the defendant to have a fair trial,” he ruled.
Recorder Upward said he was therefore dismissing the case against the defendant/
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