Is the Crown Prosecution Service fit for purpose?

Is the Crown Prosecution Service fit for purpose?

From the BBC

No police officers will be prosecuted over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

It follows a review of new evidence which came to light at his inquest.

Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot dead by police at Stockwell Tube station in south London after he was mistaken for one of the failed 21 July 2005 bombers.

A spokeswoman for the Justice 4 Jean campaign said she was "absolutely furious" with the decision.

In December, an inquest jury returned an open verdict - rejecting the police view that he was killed lawfully.

Stephen O'Doherty, the lawyer who led the CPS review, said: "I have now concluded that there is insufficient evidence that any offence was committed by any individual officers in relation to the tragic death of Mr de Menezes."

'Inconsistencies'

The officers, known as Charlie 2 and Charlie 12, told the inquest they had shouted a warning at Mr de Menezes and he had continued moving towards them.

But passengers at the inquest had said this was not the case, and the jury did not accept the officers' accounts.

Mr O'Doherty said: "Although there were some inconsistencies in what the officers said at the inquest, there were also inconsistencies in what passengers had said.

"I concluded that in the confusion of what occurred on the day, a jury could not be sure that any officer had deliberately given a false account of events."


It's unbelievable that the CPS had taken this decision without talking to the family or their representatives
Yasmin Khan
Justice 4 Jean

Mr O'Doherty said there was no fresh evidence presented to the inquest to make him reconsider an earlier decision not to prosecute senior officers for negligence.

He has written to Mr de Menezes' family to explain the decision, he added.

Yasmin Khan of the Justice 4 Jean campaign described the CPS decision as "morally reprehensible and legally wrong".

This case is, as I have said before, a whitewash and fairly typical behaviour from what is supposed to be an independent body

My partner received one of those letters from the CPS and it was riddled with inconsistencies supplied by the police. Based on these erroneous errors, ( or lies, depending on how one looks at it), they did not proceed with her case either.

Again wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!

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It makes you proud to be British doesn't it?

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But I cannot believe this pile of shit I read here.

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"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"


Whist all the debacle regarding Damian Green and the short comings of our social services departments, yet again by failing to provide protection of vulnerable young people in the UK has been grabbing all the media headlines, one of the most tragic and loudest events in recent history has been relegated to barely a whisper.

Yet another terrible, but altogether, typical week for decency, freedom of the media, justice and, what passes itself off as democracy, in UKPlc.



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It is my opinion that Craig Murry's comment sums up just how far our political masters have control over our Judiciary, our supposedly independent, para-military police forces and security services, and how far away they are from any form of accountability.



Craig Murray

December 3, 2008
The Disgraceful Sir Michael Wright, A Grovelling Tool of the Police State

One of the features of a transition to a police state is that those who should defend our liberties transfer their allegiance to the executive of the state. Viz the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Serjeant at Arms. Now we have a senior coroner. Sir Michael Wright, coroner in the Jean Charles de Menezes inquiry, who has told the jury they are not permitted to return a verdict of unlawful killing.

That is of course the obvious verdict from the evidence. Were it not so, the disgraceful Wright would not have needed to serve the police by so instructing.

Wright went on to give a completely one-sided summation of the evidence, restating police evidence and ignoring the evidence of many close eye-witnesses who contradicted it. In perhaps the most extraordinary passage in a summation in recent English legal history, he went on to justify the occasions where the police killers were caught obviously lying:

However, Wright added, even if the jury found the officers had lied, they would not be able to blame them for the death. "Many people tell lies for a variety of reasons … [including] to mitigate the impact of what might be a … tragic mistake," he said.

Read that again.

However, Wright added, even if the jury found the officers had lied, they would not be able to blame them for the death. "Many people tell lies for a variety of reasons … [including] to mitigate the impact of what might be a … tragic mistake," he said.

Incredible, isn't it? So it is fine to shoot a completely innocent man repeatedly in the head, and lie about it in Court, because you are only trying to "mitigate the impact".

What?

Well Craig, as far as I can understand it is like, when a Prime Minister announces that they are going to stands down and they say something like "I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That's your call.... I have been very lucky and very blessed. This country is a blessed nation. The British are special, the world knows it, in our innermost thoughts, we know it. This is the greatest nation on Earth. It has been an honour to serve it."

Oh! they say, you tried your best, alot of people were lied to and got hurt and killed but, hey, you did your best, it's a difficult job you know, being a PM or an armed police officer, but you did what you thought was right. You may have been wrong but that's ok then isn't it?

There is a place reserved for Sir Michael in the deepest, blackest, hottest corner of Hell. He has already had much more time on this Earth than was allowed to poor Jean Charles De Menezes, who Sir Michael wishes us to believe was quite lawfully blown away by the police.

and I may have found the address...
Sir Michael, C/o The Eighth Circle, Bolgia 8, Hell.

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