[kirklancaster]

I posted this last week - and this case just proves how right I am:

"Surely it is now a matter of some urgency for the law to be changed in all Democratic countries, where, if a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, then his/her identity should not be made public until - at the very least - the most rigorous of pre-charge investigations have been carried out into the merit of the allegations.

Once an identity is made public in such a manner as this, it does not matter if the person accused is comprehensively cleared of any wrongdoing and no charges are therefore brought, there are always those so ready to still believe in that person's guilt, and no one totally escapes the stigma of being wrongly accused.

Even now there are considerable numbers of people who still 'believe' that Sir Cliff Richard was "guilty of something" because "there's no smoke without fire".
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