Thursday 27 August 2020

Trials in absentia

 It is reported that the accused in the Harry Dunn fatal crash case may be tried here even though she has returned to the States. 

It seems to me that before we try the citizen of a (mostly) friendly power for what at worst would be manslaughter, the DPP should give greater priority to trying the murderers of Alexander Litvinenko and the perpetrators of the Salisbury poisonings. In the latter case, there were two attempted murders, an incidental manslaughter and two incidental cases of grievous bodily harm. 

Russia has changed her criminal code to forbid trials in absentia - but not before sentencing Litvinenko to death for writing his expose of the Moscow apartment bombings after being granted asylum in Britain.


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