Sasha Johnson Case Dropped

[KoalafiedAwesome]

WTF?

Can anyone explain why please?

We don't know. The Crown Prosecution Service knows but they're not telling. Some crucial piece of evidence or witness testimony has presumably failed them.

In court, prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said:
...the Crown had alleged the four males were the defendants, however the case against them was based on circumstantial evidence and there was no direct evidence identifying any of them...

It’s failed because of the ‘wall of silence’. People at that party are too frightened to come forward as witnesses.

Almost any article on it explains why.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/22/sasha-johnson-shooting-case-against-four-men-collapses

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60479678

The prosecution dropped the case as they were not able to offer any substantial evidence.

Each article actually says something slightly different, ie. some mention listening devices.

So has it been dropped because it may impact a covert operation? Is that one possibility? Ie. did the intelligence it was these men allegedly come from an undercover officer?

@Felix125 that's more clearer but it still doesn't really make sense to my very unlegal mind!

Do they need to find a weapon with DNA etc as well?

I quickly looked this up. Nobody would give evidence. That's the reason.

The family have talked a lot about people not coming forward, but the CPS haven't said that's why they dropped the case so late in the day: what they've said implies something more complicated.

@CharacterForming that's what I was thinking / asking, and hence why I wondered if there was something else going on - I have read about cases being dropped as they would impact something much larger if they were prosecuted and the mention of listening devices made me wonder if that was what was going on.

Very horrible for Sasha's family.

[quote KoalafiedAwesome]@Felix125 that's more clearer but it still doesn't really make sense to my very unlegal mind!

Do they need to find a weapon with DNA etc as well?[/quote]
Could be all sorts of reasons really.

Things like DNA on weapons - but then again, they may come up with a reason as to why their DNA was on it ("my mate showed me a gun a few days a go which a took hold of but gave him it back"

Or witnesses refusing to go to court, or unclear CCTV, blood splatter, gun powder residues etc etc

The list is endless.