Crown Prosecution Service acknowledges it twice failed to prosecute Mohamed al Fayed over sex abuse claims

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1. Rich and influential people being held to a different standard than everyone else?   

   I am shocked.    

   No victims, you don’t matter. Don’t you know know who he is?!?

2. Wonder how many people are waiting till Philip Green dies?

3. Doesn’t sound like they did.

   > While the CPS did review both files, the spokesperson said: “To bring a prosecution the CPS must be confident there is a realistic prospect of conviction – in each instance, our prosecutors looked carefully at the evidence and concluded this wasn’t the case.”

   Absence of evidence isn’t a CPS failure. Sadly, such cases are very hard to prove.

4. Fail implies a genuine mistake. That’s not the case here

5. Did Kier Starmer let him off like he did Jimmy Saville?

6. Crown prosecution service acknowledges it twice failed to prosecute a man due to being rich.

7. Odd that- I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact he was extremely weathly and no doubt donated to the various political parties

8. And yet they put someone in prison for 17 years for a rape he didn’t commit.

   https://news.sky.com/story/amp/andrew-malkinson-rape-conviction-of-man-who-spent-17-years-in-prison-overturned-12927618

9. Does failed mean “we knew and chose not to act” in this case?

10. I wonder if the person in charge of the CPS at the time has anything to say about this ?

11. Let’s face it there’s always been two tier policing for the wealthy

12. Seems being rich in the UK equals a free pass to do whatever you like