Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
"Released under investigation", as it is normally referred to, means that the police have interviewed you under caution and then released you into indefinite limbo (possibly with some conditions as to who you can contact, etc) while they investigate the alleged offence at their own pace and eventually decide whether to charge you or take no further action.
Quite - which suggests that to me at least, that all is not what it seems. If he was 'banged to rights' as the expression goes, he would have appeared in court this morning charged with an offence, as a certain Mr Rooney did recently under similar circumstances