On the "not guilty" verdicts on the Beeston trio, Ali, Saleem and Shakil -
What intrigues me about this is how things have changed since the 1970s. Then when an IRA bomb went off all the muskers had to do was grab some handy Paddies, verbal them up, and a jury would do its duty and find them guilty as charged.
This time the jury has chosen not to believe the prosecution's tale. Is it anything to do with the behaviour of the police of late? Jean Charles de Menezes, Ian Tomlinson, the lies the police told, and their ever changing stories as the facts emerged little by little?
Of course back then it was possible to beat a confession out of an innocent person in custody, but it happened too often to be allowed to continue.
Then again it may be the number of convicted "bombers" who were later released and (officially)compensated that could make a jury think twice about taking police statements as reliable.
Who knows? Not me, I expected a guilty verdict regardless of the quality of the evidence. After all these were Muslims, with BEARDS. Perhaps I should have had more faith in the jury system, but a long memory makes that difficult.