The controversy over the police inquiry and prosecution case emerged after a jury acquitted eight men of murdering brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, and their friend Haroon Jahan, 20, as they tried to protect their businesses on 10 August at the height of the rioting in Winson Green, Birmingham, last summer.
"This was, and is, probably the most complicated investigation, inquiry and prosecution I've dealt with in quarter of a century," former North West Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal said.
Releasing all the photos depicting detainee abuse and initiating an independent inquiry and prosecution of those responsible at the highest level is the only way forward.
For sure, Brazil's hosting has had its share of serious issues and nothing short of a full inquiry and prosecution of everything from the city selection processes to grafts from contractors will suffice.
For another, while Democrats and Republicans occasionally have different views in certain areas of antitrust, like merger reviews and predatory-pricing inquiries, the prosecution of price-fixing and cartels has become as accepted as combating terrorism and narcotics.
Unquestionably, police inquiries and prosecutions are welcomed, as is greater exposure of the problem in a "post-Savile" era.
"I'm not sure I want inquiries and prosecutions," one survivor's partner said to me in early July, as Theresa May announced two independent investigations into historic child abuse and its cover-ups.
Senior F.B.I. officials have joined with Scottish prosecutors in recent weeks in visiting Tripoli to press the case for American and British investigators to work on the case in Libya, but officials of the post-Qaddafi government have been wary, insisting that any new inquiries — and prosecutions — would have to be under Libya's control.
"For the attorney general to suggest that there should be an end to investigations, inquests, inquiries or prosecutions for Troubles-related killings whether caused by paramilitaries, the police or the Army is a dramatic policy change and a cause of real concern for the SDLP.
And it would allow the department to assist in the inquiry and local prosecution if requested.
