Noit@lemm.ee to UK Politics@feddit.ukEnglish · 9 months agoTory MP Crispin Blunt arrested on suspicion of rapewww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down12
arrow-up169arrow-down1external-linkTory MP Crispin Blunt arrested on suspicion of rapewww.bbc.co.ukNoit@lemm.ee to UK Politics@feddit.ukEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareJackthelad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·9 months agoObviously innocent until proven guilty, but isn’t this the guy who claimed that the conviction of Imran Ahmad Khan for being a paedo was a “miscarriage of justice”? It wouldn’t surprise me if he’d also behaved in a similar fashion.
minus-squareNoit@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 months agoAt some point you start to wonder whether our abysmal rape conviction rates are a deliberate government policy to protect Conservative MPs.
minus-squarenoodle@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoThe policy doesn’t matter as the police selectively enforce it.
minus-squarejamrom@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoAnd the police don’t investigate historic crimes based on who the suspects are.
Obviously innocent until proven guilty, but isn’t this the guy who claimed that the conviction of Imran Ahmad Khan for being a paedo was a “miscarriage of justice”?
It wouldn’t surprise me if he’d also behaved in a similar fashion.
At some point you start to wonder whether our abysmal rape conviction rates are a deliberate government policy to protect Conservative MPs.
The policy doesn’t matter as the police selectively enforce it.
And the police don’t investigate historic crimes based on who the suspects are.