The way that the authorities back pedalled about bringing any case, and the fact that the defence are working overtime to try the case by Media, would suggest that, whatever the jury decides will be negated on appeal.

The defence will simply claim that after all the publicity there is no possibility of a fair trial, notwithstanding that they themselves are the authors of most of that publicity.

I'm afraid this case is going, as you might expect, to be just as dead and buried as the black kid with nothing more on his mind than a sweet tooth.

Don T.