Does anyone here watch programmes like 24 Hours in Police Custody? Where real-life events are followed from when they happen through to being charged? ( - nearly all, if not all, recent ones have ended up with a charge). And at the end there is a summary of how it turned out.
In most cases they seem to me to have the person bang to rights, with CCTV, DNA and/or credible witnesses.
However most people, oddly enough, don't want to plead guilty and come up with often fantastically unbelievable tales, sometimes changing their story along the way, and invariably seem to get off completely, or get sentenced on a much reduced charge, presumably because they have introduced an element of doubt.
I'm sure that's what happened here.
btw I'm intrigued how once can judge with such confidence from this case how he will behave in the future behind the wheel.
(As an aside, I don't know how solicitor's can sleep at night, when they assist people guilty of some really nasty crimes to get off the hook. And very few police interviews under caution get any responses other than No Comment.)
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