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Barry George found NOT guilty
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That may be, but there wasn't enough evidence to convict him so he has been freed. That's exactly how the judicial system should work.
Perhaps if something hadn't been wrong with the first verdict there would have been no need for a retrial?
This seems to be one of those emotional cases where the "general UK public" like to act as prosecution, judge and jury
Reminiscent of the early days of the "Spanish disappearance"?
We can't just convict people because we don't like the look of them and call them nutters.
This seems to be one of those emotional cases where the "general UK public" like to act as prosecution, judge and jury
Reminiscent of the early days of the "Spanish disappearance"?
We can't just convict people because we don't like the look of them and call them nutters.
Couldn't resist:
Bedevere: What makes you think she is a witch?
Villager: Well, She turned me into a newt!!
(pause)
Bedevere: a newt?
(long pause)
Villager: I got better...
Villagers: BURN HER anyway! BURN! BURN! BURN HER!
Bedevere: Quiet, quiet, quiet, QUIETA There are ways of *telling* whether she
is a witch!
Villagers: Are there? What? Tell us, then! Tell us!
Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
V: BUUUURN!!!!! BUUUUUURRRRNN!!!!! You BURN them!!!! BURN!!
Bedevere: And what do you burn apart from witches?
Villager: More Witches!
Other Villager: Wood.
Bedevere: So. Why do witches burn?
(long silence)
(shuffling of feet by the villagers)
Villager: (tentatively) Because they're made of.....wood?
Bedevere: Goooood!
Other Villagers: oh yeah... oh....
Bedevere: So. How do we tell whether she is made of wood?
One Villager: Build a bridge out of 'er!
Bedevere: Aah. But can you not also make bridges out of stone?
Villagers: oh yeah. oh. umm...
Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
One Villager: No! No, no, it floats!
Other Villager: Throw her into the pond!
Villagers: yaaaaaa!
(when order is restored)
Bedevere: What also floats in water?
Villager: Bread!
Another Villager: Apples!
Another Villager: Uh...very small rocks!
Another Villager: Cider!
Another Villager: Uh...great gravy!
Another Villager: Cherries!
Another Villager: Mud!
Another Villager: Churches! Churches!
Another Villager: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck!
Villagers: (in amazement) ooooooh!
Bedevere: exACTly!
Bedevere: (to a villager) So, *logically*...
Villager: (very slowly, with pauses between each word)
If...she...weighs the same as a duck......she's made of wood.
Bedevere: and therefore...
(pause)
Villager: A Witch!
All Villagers: A WITCH!
(they do consequently weigh her across from a duck on Bedevere's largest scale, and she does indeed weigh the same as the duck.)
Got it in one.
Just down from where I live the bridge across the Thames is one of the last places in England the ducking stool was used
No his defence counsel said "The only reason that the prosecution say that this is the work of the local loner, the local nutter, the man with these serious psychological problems, is because that is the man they arrested". Which is not the same thing at all.
This conviction stank to high heaven from the start and shows the discrimination people with mental health problems have to put up with,including in this case from the mental health industry itself.
Nutters, as you call them, should be in hospital receiving help and not be left to be rail-roaded by lazy Police more interested in a quick fix than administering proper investigative Police work to benefit society.