Are you suggesting that I am part of that lynch mob Peter?
Fear is not an emotion that is amenable to reason, and whether they have got the right person under arrest or whether they haven't, it is a fact that many people will feel safer because of that fact. My ex was in deep dread while Peter Sutcliffe was on the prowl albeit we were living more than 200 miles away from his scenes of crime.
We can all go back and drag up historical examples right back to Tim Evans and beyond, they prove nothing except human fallibility.
G.