Since the 1985 Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act, FGM has been a criminal offence in the UK, yet nobody has been successfully convicted of the crime, in contrast to more than 100 convictions in France since 1988.
As yet, no one has been successfully convicted for the bombing.
Drowsy drivers have been successfully convicted of vehicular homicide or manslaughter under negligence statutes in Maryland, California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as in Australia, Britain, Japan and New Zealand.
Yet despite the passing of the Act and the investigation by the Metropolitan Police of more than 300 cases, only one person, Anthony Sawoniuk – a former policeman in Nazi-occupied Belarus – has been successfully convicted.
The law and its interpretation means the officer is unlikely to be successfully convicted just for having a mistaken perception that the suspect was about to open fire, as long as it cannot be disproved that he had an honestly held belief.
Despite being the head of an organisation linked to al-Qaida and designated by the US in 2014 as a "specially designated global terrorist", Ishaq had never been successfully convicted by a court system where witnesses, judges and prosecutors are easily intimidated.
Given he's already successfully convicted two Trump associates and is leaning on others, it's not hard to envision Mueller going for the jugular here.
No-one has been successfully criminally convicted of the bombing, but in 2009 Murphy, a builder and publican from Dundalk, Co Louth, and Daly, a bricklayer from Cullaville, Co Monaghan, and two others were held responsible in the initial civil action taken by some of the bereaved families.
But the Daily Campus notes up until May 2012, only one case was successfully prosecuted -- when three men were convicted and sentenced for raping a 20-year-old student at gunpoint.
The acquittal means that despite seven people being charged with the murder over the years, no one has been successfully and safely convicted.
