It’s not for me to comment as to whether the placing, last October, of a golliwog in Mrs Jenna Mason’s window constituted behavior likely to cause racially-aggravated harassment but what does concern me, yet again, is the shear ineptitude of the Crown Prosecution Service.
Mrs Mason was charged by the police, on the advice of the CPS, on the 2nd September and on the 7th of September a police spokeswoman said: "We have had a complaint from a member of the public, we have investigated it and both the Crown Prosecution Service and ourselves have agreed there is enough to prosecute."
Yesterday, at Lowestoft Magistrates' Court, Chris McCann, head of the complex casework unit at the East of England Crown Prosecution Service, offered no evidence in a hearing lasting less than five minutes when he is reported to have told the Court that “a review has been carried out at the highest level” and that there was not “a realistic prospect of conviction”.
Now if that is the case what has changed, what further evidence has come to light to alter the view held by the CPS on the 2nd of September?
I suspect that nothing has changed and the CPS has belatedly done what it should have done much sooner and not waited until the day of trial, in the hope that Mrs Mason would plead guilty, to drop an unwinable case.
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