Stooo wrote:Guest wrote:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/06/pensioner-arrested-murder-career-burglar-told-wont-face-charges/
Won't face charges.
Of course he won't, this has been a perfect model of manufactured outrage vs common sense.
If you kill someone then a worse case scenario is assumed and you are arrested for murder, you are then questioned under caution and with a brief on your end. This is due process, everyone who is caught killing someone is arrested for murder because you have to assume the worse without evidence.
If you kill someone as a policeman you can accept to be arrested for murder because someone got killed and you have to assume the worse, this is no different.
Will you outraged idiots actually try to educate yourselves for once?
That is correct but it wasn't always so. This situation has evolved over time for many reasons and has mostly found it's way onto our statute books by the guile of government which the people had little say in and are mostly completely ignorant of the potential magnitude of what they've allowed to become law.
You see what you've stated goes completely against one of the founding principles of British justice which was 'You are presumed innocent until proven guilty' - what we have today of course is, as you stated, 'You are presumed guilty until you are proven innocent' - there is one hell of a diffence between the two, particularly if you're on the sharp end.