It is my view he was protected because he knew of other paedophiles in the networks in which he operated and had he been prosecuted then I think those other people would have been named by Smith and that's why they ensured they would never be put before the court".
"He was protected because he knew of other paedophiles in the networks in which he operated and had he been prosecuted, then I think those other people would have been named by Smith and that's why they ensured that he was never put before the courts".
Following "the Battle of Orgreave", one of the most violent and infamous clashes of the Thatcher period, dozens of miners were prosecuted, then acquitted: police evidence against them, it was revealed, had been fabricated.
If those leaders can be prosecuted, then I am ready to be prosecuted as well".
But they also say that if apartheid leaders are to be prosecuted, then ANC leaders should be too.
In his interview with the Hannover newspaper, Gröning argued that, if someone like him were to be prosecuted, "then where would you stop?
If the attorney general privately tells the DPP that it will not be in the public interest for protected suspects to be prosecuted, then the DPP's role is just a smokescreen to prevent political accountability of the attorney general.
The ruling for Wotton was in stark contrast to the recent fortunes of Chris Hurley, the white officer who was prosecuted then acquitted of causing the death of Mulrunji, known in life as Cameron Doomadgee.
"Had he been prosecuted, then the house of cards would have fallen, in terms of that paedophile network, and it could have brought the government down," the Labour MP told Today.
Miller's office also prosecuted then-Mayor Roger Hedgecock on corruption charges linked to his 1983 mayoral campaign to succeed Wilson, who had been elected to the U.S. Senate.
