JimUk1 wrote:Comrade Sharik wrote:The Carol Higgins link on the page takes you to a placeholder page, but also in Ackworth, is this Carol Higgins
https://en-gb.facebook.com/Carol-Higgin ... 869429759/
Heaven only knows what is going on there, but I'm sure that the intervention of Robinson and the A61 crowd will make things even muddier...
Good find. Yes it is very unusual, there seems to be a complaint of rape and of a cover up?
Asking Dave to intervene is only going to land her in trouble.
I agree. This isn't going to be a constructive engagement. Ms Higgins is burning for vengeance upon her father, alleging childhood molestation. Police are plodding through an investigation process, and the absence of material evidence may lead to no prosecution being realistically feasible. Very sad to see a family at war, whatever the truth of it all.
The critical problem is what happens in the immediate timeframe. Ms Higgins says she wants her father to be arrested by dawn raid and taken away in handcuffs, to be shamed and stigmatised. This collides with UK principles regarding the presumption of innocence, and also the "necessity test" for arrest. Basically if the suspect will reasonably co-operate with the investigation and attend interviews by arrangement, making an arrest would be potentially unlawful.
And how long is it going to take before some cockwomble on PLD says "well if the Police won't arrest him, maybe we should.."? Easy to imagine some mob of idiots bundling him into a van and taking him to the Police station, where he will be immediately released again. So will they decide to investigate or try him themselves, or even to dispense his supposed just desserts?
Ms Higgins would be well-advised to stay away from these people. Their meddling could wreck any prospect of a real prosecution ever occurring. And if she has encouraged it, even worse. A classic example of how PLD / FMOTL idiocy can wreck real lives.
