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**** The official AND ONLY 'Albion players arrested' thread ****
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fly high
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email sent, very polite "Tommy Elphick has been totally exonerated, whilst your newspaper has reported this fact it should receive exactly the same prominence as your headline saying he had been accused of a serious crime."
fly high
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it's the law!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seagull kimchi
New member
Nice. That's a reasonable request - let's see how reasoned their response is. Good on you.
Superseagull69
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Isn't this something to do with recording interviews under caution? also allowing formal representation?
For instance married woman is murdered police have no evidence to suspect husband and in reality believe he is not involved, however in order to gather evidence and move case forward husband is arrested under caution to enable formal, recorded, interview. Only difference here though is that husband is released (not on bail).
I could be completely wrong here though.
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
Most people have been sensible and respectful during this, perhaps you'd like to give that a try?
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fly high
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countrygull
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But were they arrested as witnesses, or were they also suspected of involvement? Similar to the talk of Swansea fans being arrested: it is far more likely that they were arrested because it is believed that one or more of them were under suspicion of involvement: but the only way to hold them all whilst finding out who may have been involved was to deprive them all of their liberty. A person questioned without being arrested is entitled to walk away.
watsongooal
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I have just jotted an e-mail as well- innocent until guilty, wrecking lives and careers without evidence, they should issue an apology etc etc
Bum grab up to, well you can imagine what.
34064 Fighter Command
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Especially if they know the accused and might have a vested interest in seeing them get off ( i.e. providing a false statement ).
If you provide a false statement under a caution then you are guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice. If you only volunteered the information then you can easily claim that you simply made a mistake and had a lapse of memory.
Generally, in circumstances where a possible suspect has the ability to influence witnesses the Police would prefer a statement to be made under caution as Lord B says, they are more likely to make the witness realise that they may face criminal proceedings if they don't provide the truth, rather than a made up story the witness might prefer to make their lives easier, along the lines of ' I didn't see anything and I wasn't there '.
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Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
In some cases not as bad as it sounds. In theory pinching someones arse at the office christmas party is sexual assault.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Extremely unlikely.
Mr Banana
Tedious chump
I appreciate almost all the points of view on this thread, but there's a lot of naivety about the job of journalists and the way tabloid newspapers work. Not least that there is no point in emailing Emily Walker, because the design and wording of the front page would have been entirely down to the subs.
yxee
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Okay, then why did the Argus say "accused"? If a person is arrested under suspicion of a crime (with a certain amount of evidence but possibly not yet enough to charge), and they are released without charge, then how is it accurate to report that that person was "accused"?