BBCNEWS Newsnight January 19, 2018
Injustice anywhere, wrote Martin Luther king, is a threat to justice everywhere. Sometimes the cry of injustice is raised by the accused, sometimes by victims. But this week, unusually, weve heard it from both sides in rape trials. For many, todays government announcement that it will not challenge the parole boards decision to free the black cab rapistjohn worboys, is inexplicable. Lawyers for two of worboys victims have said they instead will challenge the decision to release him. And around the same time that the government abandoned its worboys challenge, prosecutors in guildford formally ...