theleveller,

Whilst in the Stephen Lawrence case I think (some) of the right people have been found guilty the double jeopardy is open to abuse, relying as it does on trusting the authorities not to abuse the system. I believe that this is taking trust too far - now the door has been opened to allowing double jeopardy who can say that in the future this won't be expanded to triple or quadruple jeopardy to ensure that the authorities end up getting the result they want.