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Originally Posted by Nedusa
Surely a judge isn't going to sign a search warrant to search Sir Cliff Richards house unless there is some damming evidence there. To do all of this on the say so from someone that alleges an incident occurred over 30 years ago is quite incredible.
It suggests other agendas are at play here. From what has been publicly disclosed on this it seems a grotesque overreaction.
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Not necessarily, many houses are searched in order to help substantiate circumstantial allegations/possible evidence into more concrete evidence.
They have this allegation/complaint from someone who was under 16 and in the 80s that would be an illegal sexual act.
They have to act on that since the revealing that these cases are now taken more seriously.
A search can be to help the accused as well a s the victim, if they find nothing or little that will be good for whose home is searched,however if it's thought possible that other offences may have been committed,searching the home of someone alleged to have committed a crime is one of the first ways of gathering evidence if any may exist.
No harm done really if it is known there is no evidence or anything else incriminating there to be found anyway.
This may have been alleged to have happened around over 30 years ago but as has been shown celebrities have been found guilty of historic abuses,some really serious too, and some have even pleaded guilty to some of those charges too.
So it has to be acted on and seen through once a complaint is made.