Was he not guilty then??

[ponderingonthings]

Some years ago I vaguely knew a group of girls (several) who testified against a man that he was a pedophile (and crimes of that nature) at the time I saw in the papers locally that the man was convicted and sentenced, cleared on some charges but sentenced on a lot. I also vaguely knew the man.

Heard nothing. Just kind of forgot about it till the other day I met someone who had also known at the time the girls and the man and they mentioned what happened, it gave me curiosity to google it for some reason

The original articles now says was cleared on all counts at a retrial 3 years later.

Does this mean the girls were assumed to be lying or that most likely he had a good lawyer? Why would a retrial happen?

Just was surprised and thinking I don't understand why that would happen

@Desmondo2016, you're doing a very poor job of defending your profession by making unfounded statements like "An evidential loophole and a damned clever appeal lawyer is most likely." You have no information to suggest what has happened in the case in question.

Then to go on to say "I'm a copper so to me they're all guilty!" makes you sound quite inept. You're there to investigate allegations, to treat both complainants and defendants fairly, and making sweeping judgments like that is not your job.

Thankfully most officers are not like you.

Like you said the op is a slightly moot point really as it's utterly impossible for anyone to give any accurate information in this situation hence the reason I can afford to be slightly flippant about it. Incidentally this is the internet so I could stack shelves in Tesco for all you know and be talking out my ass regarding the criminal justice system. No need to start reading between the lines and get nasty tho 😘

And with regards to my comment about being a copper and them all being guilty it's 100% true!!! There are so few of us these days and demand is ever rising so there's no way in the world we waste our time mounting an investigation against someone we aren't pretty certain are guilty!!