Criminal damage is an "either way" offence meaning it can be tried at the either the Crown Court or Magistrates' Court. It has always been the case that defendants can demand, in such … (View Post)

There's a big difference between triggers and causes. You can say the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered the First World War, whilst accepting that there were deeper and wider i… (View Post)

No they aren't. People voted for David Amess to be their Conservative MP in 2019. That, tragically, is no longer an option. But the murder itself deprives them of it, not the subsequent by-elect… (View Post)

I know... and I think they were all wrong, and did at the time. (View Post)

None of the three cases - Eastbourne, Batley, or Southend - involved killers who had any interest whatsoever in the outcome of the subsequent by-election. These were murders by extremist Irish republ… (View Post)