Juries 'should hear phone taps' to nail crime gangs

[David Hansen]

Owen Lewis wrote:

>The Crown does not always make its case soundly. That is a matter 
>distinct from claiming that there was not a sound case to have been 
>made.

One last comment, before it strays too far away from cryptography.

It is a familiar conceit for the government side of a balls up to 
say, "We know they are guilty really. They only got off because of 
the stupid jury/Fiscal's incompetence/bent lawyers/stupid judge/(add 
other excuses here). We have evidence that we can't tell you about 
which shows they are really guilty."

I'm afraid I'm getting rather too old to do anything other than yawn 
at such claims. They are just examples of the namby pamby, left wing, 
Open University, 1960s, social worker approach that has done so much 
damage to the UK. Instead of taking responsibility of their actions 
the people making such claims seek to blame everyone but themselves 
for what went wrong. I have seen it after many balls ups, including 
the Birmingham Pub Bombings case.



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