Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"Back on topic, it is today all over the media that Mark Pritchard MP was arrested following an allegation of rape. Or should I say, the Met wrote to the speaker telling him that they had arrested an MP, and they told the press that "a 48-year-old man had been arrested following an allegation of rape in central London." Mark Pritchard is 48. So the world now knows it was him.
If you read more, it turns out he voluntarily attended a police station (where he was arrested) and was released on police bail, having not been charged with anything.
Yet on BBC and the rest it is being trumpeted in so many words that Pritchard has been arrested on suspicion of rape.
I have a huge problem with this. If he turns out to be a rapist, or even if he is charged and tried, then report it. But let's say he (or any other man finding themselves in that position) was in fact 100% innocent - how is it right that an innocent man should be put in the position that he finds himself today?'"
Seconded.
There are even questions as to if the arrest of someone who attends a police station voluntarily is legal. Clearly, this has been done as there are certain things they can do when someone is in arrest that they can't do if someone is not in arrest, such as compel them to give samples etc...
