I'm not furious, in fact I'm quite pleased. The fact that the jury were able to stick with what they thought was the correct verdict, and not be swayed into the easy verdict demanded by the mob, encourages me to think that justice is alive and well.
Especially since the mob (i.e. most posters on here and on social media) appear spectacularly badly informed:
Don't understand the difference between pleading guilty and pleading not guilty
Think calling for the burning alive of a specific group of innocent people is the same as saying that violent criminals should be killed. (Presumably they think that saying "peadophiles should hang" should be illegal too?)
Have no clue how jury trials work.
Don't know the first thing about how the justice system in general works (and appear to think "Labour" or the PM himself are in charge of decisions to prosecute, the judiciary, the advice given by solicitors to their clients, bail decisions, and are even directing events in the jury room!)
Unfortunately I think the real societal divide (and the reason for the risk of serious unrest) is between those few sensible people who live in the real world and have a proper understanding of how things work, and those many badly-informed, gullible people who are vulnerable to online conspiracies and see what they want to see.
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