Call me old fashioned but I was under the impression that under English law, there is a presumption in favour of innocence, until proven guilty.
I refer to the article in Tuesday’s Argus headed ‘Drink-drivers to be named and shamed by police’.
The article goes on: “Sussex Police are warning that motorists charged with drink or drug-driving offences in December, should expect to see their names published as part of a continued crackdown on offenders.”
Just ‘charged’? To avoid intimation of a kangaroo court, would it not be better to serve our cherished notion of justice, to publish the names of all of those convicted of the offence during the previous year?
This would ensure that those found innocent by a court of law are spared any unproven defamatory attack on their good name.
Don McBeth, Ditchling Common, Ditchling
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