Fortisimo, thank you for telling us about the SPA, whose website indeed proudly states its "independence" in its very web address:-
Service Prosecuting Authority
Some might feel a certain reassurance from that, but others might query the need to emphasise it so. Perhaps it is because it is part of the MOD; like the MAA, like the MilAAIB, like the IFS, all of which have had their "independence" questioned if not clearly demonstrated to be but a fig leaf. In my time RAF Flight Safety was proudly stated to be independent of the RAF CoC. So it well might have been, but the IFS was just another part of the MOD, its dire warnings of lack of airworthiness among many air fleets (the ARTs) could be and were indeed buried, and the various forecasts in them accelerated by the illegal acts of certain RAF VSOs set to plunder the hitherto ring fenced Air Safety budgets. They succeeded, by issuing illegal orders to suborn the regs, persecuting and dismissing those who would not comply, and by pulping the regs lest they be quoted. They got hold of the money, and UK Military Air Safety took such a hit that it is still reeling from it.
Evidence and testimony of this has been presented to the RAF Provost Marshal and the Thames Valley Police. Neither have acted upon it. Neither the SPA nor its Service predecessors have either. If the SPA were really the true representation of the Statue of Justice that stands atop the Old Bailey, it would surely weigh
all the evidence and consider the acts of RAF VSOs in the late 80s/ early 90s. That would bring light to bear on the many UK Military Airworthiness Related Fatal Air Accidents suffered since, on the findings, naming, and verdicts against JOs and SOs since, and of the continuing cover up of those RAF VSO acts since. It doesn't though, and so becomes part of that MOD cover up, and another obstruction to the urgently needed reform of UK Military Air Safety.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servic...ting_Authority