A second suspect has been arrested this morning, at 5am. He's 48, and lives in Ispwich, close to the red light district. The first one is still being questioned, they've got permission to question him for a further 12 hours.
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A second suspect has been arrested this morning, at 5am. He's 48, and lives in Ispwich, close to the red light district. The first one is still being questioned, they've got permission to question him for a further 12 hours.
There ought to be a media blackout on this if there is to be any hope of a fair trial, from the point of view of protecting a possibly innocent person and also making sure that the guilty party doesn't get let off on an "unfair trial" defence.
Well they've arrested a second person, so it continues.
Unless they are both linked to each other I somehow think these people are just being taken in for a talking to. The media have portrayed this first guy as a bit of a loner, hence his need to use the services of the prostitutes. Perhaps he's extremely smart and knows how to pass himself off but he doesn't seem the type to hunt in a pack with another person. But of course this is just an opinion and the Police are the ones who know what's going on.
I agree :up: Suspects are just that, suspects, and the old addage of innocent until proven guilty applies.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonnieDarco
The media's role in these situations should be questioned.
The trouble is that there is an almost unique aspect to this case, namely the way in which the first suspect made himself available to the media and said things about his involvement with the dead women on his web site. That's harder to regulate.
Also, I'm sure that many would argue that a news blackout in such cases could be counterproductive, in that a lack of information being released could mean that fewer people get in touch with potentially useful information.
However, this is not to say that I'm not uncomfortable with some aspects of the media's treatment of this case.
Drown him in a bucket then burn him face down just to be on the safe side :tweetie:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6194351.stm
Stephen Wright has been charged with the murders. Doesn't mention the other guy who is seemingly innocent yet whose life is now ****ed up beyond belief (by the media and not the police I should add). Nonetheless it's good that they seem to be certain it's this guy.
What an interesting way for the police to carry on. They question aggressively first, Tom Stephens, holding him in custody, a man who seems quite willing to talk and naively confident that, because he is innocent, he has nothing to fear from talking.
The police told us after Stephens's arrest that Mr. Stephens was 40 to 50 percent likely to have done it, which made me wonder about the search and arrest warrants for this hapless gentleman. Don't the English police have to show probable cause to a magistrate? Don't they have to convince this jurist that the victim of the search or arrest is probably guilty?
They don't, apparently, in England, so they take in Mr. Stephens (who is apparently enjoying the celebrity) for information. And here is the brilliance of the investigation so far: the police concentrate most on a single theory, which is obvious once you are told it, but is nonetheless a clever insight; the murderer, they assume, must be one of the few very regular, most trusted, most long-standing customers of the Ipswich Red Light District. He cannot be an occasional visitor, because if he were, then the fourth and fifth victims would never have gotten into the car with him. So investigators should concentrate on the most trusted regulars, engage them in gossip, and they wil be led quickly to the culprit.
And so, apparently, it has proved. Now the curtain goes down, and the news blackout begins. Damn! Just when things were getting interesting . . .