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Dominic Grieve is no judge of Damian Green's innocence

By John Hirst

Dominic Grieve is no judge of Damian Green's innocence

Dominic Grieve, the shadow Home Secretary, has interfered with an ongoing police investigation by declaring that Damian Green is only guilty of doing his job. Before Damian Green is put on trial, if indeed he is put on trial at all, he will have to be charged by the police. It is far too presumptuous of Dominic Grieve to prejudge the outcome of the independent police investigation. Obviously, Dominic Grieve must now excuse himself from this whole affair because he has declared his bias in favour of his friend Damian Green. The police do not go around arresting MPs for simply doing their job.

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Such interference by a senior Tory MP into an ongoing police investigation must surely warrant an arrest for attempting to pervert the course of justice, or at the very least arrested for obstruction.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).