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Ah, now I understand what the previous poster meant when he said about Liverpool. You're talking about the guy who was in The Bill and Coronation Street- he can be named as there are no restrictions on that case. I was talking about a different actor, in a completely different case, who can't...

By the way, regarding my last: please don't anybody name him, there are court restrictions preventing the media from doing so, therefore it probably isn't helpful to do it on here.

Do they really? I'd have thought it would be more of a Southern thing. - - - Updated - - - Do they really? I'd have thought it would be more of a Southern thing.

People do forget things as time passes anyway. There's a pretty well known soap actor on trial at the moment for rape and other offences (not in any way shape or form connected to the Savile stuff), yet most people aren't even aware of it, despite it being quite well publicised at the time he...

Indeed. In this day & age they'd have to exercise more media control than the Chinese government to prevent anybody being aware of any particular case. They have to accept that there are some things that will get out, and make sure the jurors understand their responsibility only to judge a case...

I think they could, theoretically speaking (after all, if you had somebody up for murder, and months down the line, just before the retrial, somebody came forward who would be a cast-iron alibi for the defendant, it would be extremely questionable not to admit their evidence) but the validity...