You've said that a few acquittals is good and shows the system is working well. I don't agree.
The CPS do not prosecute anything unless they feel they have more than a 50/50 chance of success, although,my suspicion is that the 50/50 figure is actually greater than that.
Then there's the likely public/press scrutiny in a high profile case, where you'd think The CPS would indulge in a bit of backside covering...and yet they still keep losing case after case.
Someone somewhere has got something fundamentally wrong.
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