Mastermind and the road to Damascus

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:12:30 +0000


In article <49A2D476.7000401@callnetuk.com>, Pete Mitchell 
<otcbn@callnetuk.com> writes
>>  Won't the policeman be deciding if the photo is potentially 
>>"information  of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or 
>>preparing an act  of terrorism", and as a result arrest the photographer.
>>  When it gets to court,
>
>Court? What court?

The one which is required to convict people of things.

>there will have to be some evidence that this
>> suspicion is true, and then balance that against any "reasonable 
>>excuse"  the photographer might have.
>
>The photos would have long vanished into the same memory hole as the 
>Stockwell CCTV footage and police control room recordings.

If there are no photos, how can they charge you with the offence?
-- 
Roland Perry