Two men walk into a scrapyard weighed down with lead, clearly taken from a roof.
Mr Plod duly arrests them and determines that the lead is an exact match for that stolen from a house in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Now at the very least they are guilty of handling stolen property but the police go the whole hog and charge the men with theft.
When the men appear in court the Criminal Protection Society, who prefer to be known as the Crown Prosecution Service, offer no evidence, the charges are duly dismissed and the men walk away.
In a letter to the victim of the theft the CPS say the men should not have been charged by the police as they denied the theft, well they would wouldn’t they?
Not surprisingly, when this matter hit the newspapers, the CPS somewhat sniffly deny their decision to discontinue the charges had anything to do with the men pleading ‘not guilty’ and related instead to ‘evidential issues’.
Obviously being caught red-handed is not enough for the organisation that ‘Couldn’t Prosecute Satan’.
It’s a wonder the Police don’t just give up in despair.
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