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Title: Rosepark Update
Post by: jayjay on April 29, 2009, 12:37:25 PM

The owners of the Rosepark Care home where 14 people died are at court again on the third attempt at prosecution see below

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Owners-of-care-home-where.5210881.jp

Hope they have success this time and the investigation report becomes public.

Title: Re: Rosepark Update
Post by: AnthonyB on April 29, 2009, 03:18:16 PM

Rather tellingly at no point are they suggesting they are not guilty & instead using technicality after technicality to stop the case being heard....

Hope they get their day in court at last.

Title: Re: Rosepark Update
Post by: Thomas Brookes on April 30, 2009, 02:14:24 PM

I can understand that they do not want to go to prison, but enough is enough. I feel for the familys I know if one of my family was killed I would want them in court.

Title: Re: Rosepark Update
Post by: nearlythere on April 30, 2009, 02:58:23 PM

Many prosecutions are successfully defended on technical issues because thats usually the only hope the defence has. Not that it happened in this case but if you committed a very serious crime the police could soon put together a right bucket load of evidence to put you away for a long ime. The only thing the defence can do is try and discredit everything that was done to get the evidence and put the case together.
Its the last chance saloon approach and sometimes it works.

Title: Re: Rosepark Update
Post by: afterburner on May 05, 2009, 11:57:06 AM

Step 1 attack the 'case', make the whole case go away for any 'technical' reason
Step 2 attack the 'evidence' to make the prosecution case seem not proven or provable beyond reasonable doubt
Step 3 attack the witness to make the evidence appear unrelaible because the witness is doubtful

seems this case is following this well known route