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Old 14th Dec 2002, 23:00
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ajamieson
 
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posted by MOL: Six people have been released on bail 'WITHOUT CHARGE'. Anybody who knows anything about law will tell you that this means that the case is by no means solid.
Nonsense; this is a completely invalid argument.

By law in England and Wales there must be a basis for engaging police bail - a basis which can be subject to the scrutiny of a magistrate at any time. Furthermore, it is obvious that further inquiries will have to be made into this incident which will take longer than the time period allowed by officers for questioning (36 hours under the legislation in this case). You can draw no conclusions either way about the validity of a prosecution case from the fact that a suspect is released on police bail.
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