Fiolar, is the point of your sarcasm that you wanted these defendants jailed "like the Birmingham six and the Guildford four" - that is, jailed when innocent?

I've just been attending a case in the court of appeal of a man wrongly (as I believe) hanged 40 years ago this month. My guess is that his conviction will be revoked, as should have happened many years ago. So too little, too late, but still a small step in the right direction. Likewise in the cases of Stefan Kiczkow, the Maguires, Stephen Downing, and many others. Always too little, too late. But in most countries on this planet miscarriages of justice are never acknowledged.

At least the UK, like most European countries, has jettisoned the death penalty, so that all those people I mentioned above (and the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four) did live to see their names cleared.

Obviously it's better by far that where a case cannot be proved, no-one should be convicted in the first place. To that extent the Damilola trial was indeed a triumph for UK justice. If that pisses off people of Fiolar's mentality, too bad. It was only because of pressure from that kind of mentality (as evidenced in the tabloid press) that such a hopeless case got into court at all.