Originally Posted by Chris

There was no witch hunt. These men falsified official police records to cover up the gross negligence that led to dozens of deaths. They lied to an official inquiry led by a judge. Those facts are established. The case failed on a very narrow technicality, around the precise definition of ‘perverting the course of justice’ in English law and the way in which the original inquiry was constituted.

It doesn’t become a witch hunt just because those in power got away with it for decades before anyone made a serious attempt to prosecute them.