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'The “trial of the facts” in relation to the child abuse claims against Greville Janner could still go ahead despite the peer’s death at the weekend, a former director of public prosecutions has said.
Ken Macdonald, who was DPP for five years until 2008, said that while he personally is opposed to the trial continuing, the decision was “quite finely balanced” and that there was a credible case for it to take place.
The Crown Prosecution Service has not yet said how it intends to proceed, but it had been widely assumed that the former Labour peer’s death on Saturday would bring the criminal proceedings to a halt.
Lord Janner was suffering from dementia and it was accepted that he was unfit to stand trial for the alleged sexual abuse of nine boys and men. But, in an unusual move prompted in part by the high level of public interest in the case, there was to be a trial of the facts – a special criminal hearing for suspects unfit to defend themselves in the normal way.'
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/...-ken-macdonald