Originally Posted by
Arblasterfromthepast
58 years old Animal and the first time I've had to request any help from the police. So, naively I suppose, you think that when provided with irrefutable evidence, the police wil take action. Not so in our case, because the evidence has to be collected in a certain manner. I think over time the balance of proving guilt has moved, so whilst it is as you say moving back in the direction of proving innocence, I'm only talking about changing the balance point back to what it used to be historically i.e. let's have some common sense; if someone's been filmed carrying out an act then why shouldn't it be used as evidence.
So it does make you think if the CPS took the Barton incident to court, they must have felt fairly confident. Makes me wonder whether evidence they'd got was suddenly ruled inadmissible in court.
I'm with you though, people cannot get away with things forever. I hope he gets his come uppence from the case he's contesting against his wife. Barton has been involved in too many violent incidents and will no doubt be involved in a few more yet. No doubt he'll say he's going to turn over yet another new leaf.