Are you from Saudi Arabia, by any chance, Nidge? That's the policy there, but not in any civilised countries. Still, it's nice to see a vote for strict Islamic theocracy on here, they get such a bad press usually. You haven't said whether you prefer stoning or beheading, by the way.
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the police officer agreed that the public in general are fed up of criminals not being persued or dealt with effectively if there is the odd chance they are.
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He was talking about public perception, not reality. If the two are as disconnected as this story indicates, then that's not necessarily a valid point.
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I also note in my local rag this week a known sex offender has been jailed for 18 months, they didn't manage to get a conviction for the alleged assault on 2 teenage girls, so they have put him in prison for not providing his new address for the sex offenders register.
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Like I said, very tough sentences there. That's a *minor* crime he's been convicted of. There's an intellectual error there with the two 'theys', who are different (the CPS in the first case and the judge in the second, presumably).
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and committed the alleged offences.
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This would be the offences for which he was *acquitted*, then? Go and look up the word 'acquit'. Actually, your post doesn't make it clear whether he was cleared by a jury or the CPS withdrew the charge due to lack of evidence, or the witnesses refused to testify or whatver. Perhaps you can enlighten us. Details are important, the law is about the particular, not the general, as someone said.
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since the DNA testing came about there has been no miscarrage of justice
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Yes there has, a student whose DNA was in the area of a crime was arrested for it and had extreme difficulty extricating himself from it. We leave DNA everywhere we go, would you really want to end up being executed for dropping a fag end near the scene of a future rape?