The eight attempts at prosecuting this Major has all the hallmarks of a fairly trivial case aganst a civil pilot about thirty years back.
The pilot won the case in the magistrates court but the police appealed, at this point BALPA got involves because a conviction would have ended the pilots career.
The police lost in all the courts up to the House of Lords and the law lords arrived at the opinion that the police just kept pushing the case up the leagal system because they did not want to back down and would win when the pilot ran out of money to defend himself.
The case aganst this Major has the same smell to it with the MoD playing with tax payers money and a bruised ego because they failed to get the guy on the previous seven occasions.
I fail to see how after seven enquiries an eighth attempt at prosecuting this guy is in the public lnterest.