DLT not guilty..

Breaking news on twitter.

 

It is as clear as day now that this whole operation Yew Tree, and the manner in which prosecutions are being brought to court, is a complete farce and an outrageous affront to British Justice.

How can so many of these prosecutions end up with not guilty verdicts if the CPS are doing their job properly - if they were, they would realise that they were applying lower thresholds to the question of whether there was enough evidence to bring the case to trial than they would if the person was a regular person, not a well known person in the public eye, simply because they are desperate to not be caught cold again in this post-Saville era.

The reputations of numerous innocent people have been trashed now. It is abhorrent.

 

His name always makes me think of a BLt sandwich.

 

Ive said this before - if the people accused are being found not guilty then those doing the accusing should face repurcussions. a lot of these 'story tellers' are just after a few quid compensation to have their hair done and tidy the back garden

 

Duck, lettuce, tomato?

 

Exactly and the fantasists and liars aren't doing genuine victims of any sexual offence, not just operation Yew Tree, any good at all.

 

Why? The accused being found not guilty doesn't mean the accusers lied.

 

I wish people would stop using acronyms all over the place.

I still have no idea what/who you're talking about. Who's DLT? Datt Le Tissier? David Lee Toth?

 

Looks like everyone on twitter under #DLT is also referring to this geezer as just "DLT", so I'm still none the wiser.

I'll just assume that he's no one important and carry on with my life.

 

Here, Tomi: http://news.sky.com/story/1211154/dave-lee-travis-not-guilty-on-12-charges

 

With the high profileness of these cases if there was any evidence that they were guilty then they would be sentenced, like stuart hall was.

 

There's a difference between is known to be true and what can be proven to be true.

 

Yeah I agree with that - but when this came to light I said DLT and Ken Barlow would be innocent and is proven the case

 

Over a dozen unconnected people all claimed similar things. If people are just making it up for a quick buck then there should be many more celebs facing trial for stuff they haven't done. The jury found him not guilty. The law says he didn't do it and that's how it works, but if you think innocent people don't get jailed and guilty ones don't walk free then you don't understand how things can sometimes work out...

 

Deirdre can't wait for his return...

 

Well clearly you have more knowledge than I do on what happened ;-)

 

Aww the hairy cornflake is back.

Saturday morning pub quiz

Quack quack oops

 

I got his autograph when I was younger, unfortunately I forgot to contact him when id left school

 

Exactly right. That's why it is the job of the CPS to determine, with as much accuracy as possible, whether there is sufficient evidence to take the case to trial and have a realistic prospect of a conviction. The fact that these accused people are continually being found not guilty is evidence that the CPS are not doing their job properly in these cases and not setting the bar at the same point for a move to trial as they would with other people. If the DLT case and the William Roache case were non-famous people being accused, untainted by the Saville like fame link, would they have got as far as a courtroom - I strongly suspect not.

They have been found not guilty, which is the right outcome if the evidence was not strong enough to convict them, which is obviously wasn't. We'll never know if they actually did some of this stuff they were accused of, we just know that it couldn't be proved beyond doubt that they did and therefore, they are declared to be not guilty in the eyes of the law. But the fact remains that they will be forever tainted by the 'no smoke without fire' lines of thought, and it is not right or proper that their names were ever made public if the evidence was not strong enough.

 

The thing is, for every one genuine case of sexual assault, I reckon there could be a few non genuine cases, people just jumping on the bandwagon, which sadly invalidates and conflicts with the genuine cases, meaning some women may never get the justice they deserve.

This is pure speculation of course which is something I probably shouldn't do.