Janner v Beck and the conspiracy cloud atlas
- April 18, 2015
- Chris Saltrese
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With the announcement by the CPS that Lord Janner will not be prosecuted despite ‘credible evidence’ of serious sexual offences, the clock has been turned back to 1991 and the conviction of Frank Beck. The Beck case was the first high-profile trawling…
CPS guidelines and the Pinocchio effect
- March 16, 2015
- Chris Saltrese
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The trial had all the hallmarks of ‘grooming’ – a gang of adults luring a vulnerable young girl into sex, drugs, prostitution and trafficking. But last week, six weeks after it began, the juggernaut case ground to a halt. …
Savile abuse inquiries – a case of demonic belief possession?
- February 27, 2015
- Chris Saltrese
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‘We now know the identity of the most reviled man in the world…’ said the BBC broadcaster. On the day of the publication of the long-awaited report into Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, it might be thought to be…
The rape conundrum: should a suspect know consent – or the DPP know the law?
- February 19, 2015
- Chris Saltrese
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‘How did you know she consented?’ This is the question that Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, wants the police to put to men suspected of rape. It’s part of a new‘toolkit’ designed to increase the rate of convictions…
The Rotherham Report: verdict first, trial later?
- December 11, 2014
- Chris Saltrese
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Since the explosion of allegations about the late Jimmy Savile in 2012, we have become accustomed to a plethora of inquiry reports pronouncing guilt without the merest whiff of due process. In a similar vein in August this year, the…
BBC – looking the wrong way yet again
- October 8, 2013
- Chris Saltrese
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On Sunday 6th October I went along to the BBC studios in Salford to take part in a BBC Radio 5 Live programmehttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/5live/5linvestigates/5linvestigates_20131006-1500a.mp3 discussing the rise in the number of allegations of historical sexual abuse post-Savile. Or the “post-Savile spike”…