“Another defendant, described as a shadowy figure with terrorist connections, was acquitted of all charges & cannot be retried”
When you see a sentence like that on the front page of the august Times newspaper, you know that somebody, somewhere has lost their head
The sad thing is that it is always easy to see in historical retrospect, where governments over-reacted to ‘the threat of terror’. And thereby often succeed only in prolonging the agony
Living through this particular agony, it is also easy to see why governments can be almost forced in to reacting like this
So thank heavens for the British jury
