06. Mar. 2010. – 12:19:34
Like many others involved directly with the
legal system I`ve been thinking through the facts in the Venables case. He is
only the fourth individual to have had life lifelong anonymity granted to him.
The others being his co defendant Robert Thompson and Mary Bell and her
daughter. With Venables in custody and its being only a matter of time before
full details are available officially or unofficially decisions will have to be
taken on whether he has forfeited his cloak of invisibility. This is primarily
a legal and arguably a moral decision. However I pose the question that if he
has an absolute right to anonymity would that continue if he were to appear in
court on a serious charge? Irrespective of the outcome of said trial would he
be offered a further change of identity? Is this process an indefinite
guarantee? The legal answers, the moral viewpoints and the financial
implications are on a collision course.
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