"If we get the information, the evidence we need to get a prosecution, I don't care how old the cases are," Mr. Johnson said.
Ultimately, unless you find that breadcrumb trail that takes you to somebody, you're never going to get a prosecution off the ground in reality.
Standing outside the Old Bailey with her surviving son Stuart, Doreen Lawrence said her relief at the verdict was mixed with anger that it had taken the police so long to get a prosecution.
They rely on police for testimony, so it's difficult to get a prosecution," Taylor said.
Before the show aired, they told VICE they hope to get a prosecution out of it.
"Time elapses, cases get dismissed, prosecutions do not take place.
I'm pretty confident we will get some prosecutions," added Baker, the government lead on FGM.
3.30pm: Jay asks what information the News of the World needed to provide to the police in order to get successful prosecutions after its investigations.
"The shift to the focus on victims is not only the morally right thing to do in and of itself, it is essential if we are to get the prosecutions necessary to try to end this evil," he said.
As of now, Conyers and Nadler aren't exactly looking for over-flow space for their meetings on how to get criminal prosecutions going.
