In early September, the Crown Prosecution Service decided it was not in the public interest to prosecute the doctors even though there was a "realistic prospect of conviction".
The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, said it was not in the public interest to prosecute Caractacus Downes, who traveled to Zurich with his parents in July and booked their hotel room.
The question was thrown into relief this week when, following an inquest into the suicide pact of an elderly Newbury couple, it was revealed that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided it was not in the public interest to prosecute the daughter who assisted them.
In January, it was revealed at an inquest into the suicide pact of an elderly couple from Newbury that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided it wasn't in the public interest to prosecute their daughter for helping them take their lives.
Second, is it in the public interest to prosecute?
We have concluded there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to prosecute".
Obviously, it is in the public interest to prosecute complex fraud cases, not just benefit scamsters.
"But for medical considerations, it would undoubtedly have been in the public interest to prosecute," the CPS added.
Justice Department officials argue that it is in the United States's interest to prosecute corporate bribery wherever it takes place.
Invariably if it is child sexual abuse it will be in the public interest to prosecute it".
Question one: how could any prosecutor decide that it was in the public interest to prosecute Sarah?
