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I asked how you knew, not how they do or don't. After all, you're making these brash and sweeping statements.Because he would be charged with murder - the others would not.
Is that the best you can do? You asked me my stance on the issue and I spent time typing it out - so answer my post.
"It's simple really. It will become clear that it is an unsafe conviction. If hanging were still around they wouldn't receive the death penalty as the conviction is unsafe. For example, no-one knows who delivered the fatal blow - so do you say, "I don't know which one is the murderer, so hang the lot of them and let God sort them out"? Well would you? It wasn't a trial it was a circus. English law is based on 'intent'. I can only be charged with a crime (other than road traffic offence) if it can be proven that I had 'intent' to commit that crime. In this case it would be 'intent' to murder Lawrence. The odds are that the racist mob (that I have no sympathy for) had the 'intent' to give Lawrence a 'good kicking' for being black. They chased him as a mob with this 'intent' until one of them pulled a knife and decided (with intent) to stab Lawrence. Even THAT isn't 'intent' to murder. It may well have been 'intent' to cause GBH. The police then offered one of the gang (Norris) immunity from prosecution if he 'sang'. Therefore they must have been of the belief that Norris did NOT deliver the fatal blow - or they could not do that. The next thing we hear is that Norris has been convicted of the crime the police were sure he didn't commit. Are you guys getting it yet? All those years and all those millions of pounds they just HAD to come up with something. Remember the Guildford 4 and the Birmingham 6? It's a stitch up for political reasons - but it will come unstuck is Strasbourg. Do you still think it is a safe conviction? Well do you?"