Rosepark Update

[jayjay]

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.

[AnthonyB]

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.

[Thomas Brookes]

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.

[nearlythere]

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.

[afterburner]

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