Probably feeling the same as the Juries who, day in and day out, make judgements on peoples guilt or innocence without knowing the accused’s ‘form’.
Its one of the long standing legal protections given to the accused. nothing new, and very importantly, not a case of special treatment being given to this police officer.
I don’t recall a huge outpouring of previous cries saying the system is not fair, in fact, there was a pretty strong objection across the board to the change in the law in 2000 that meant in certain circumstances ‘bad character’ could be revealed.
completely unrelated and not even vaguely connected
Really? another family & community left feeling that justice has not been done after the violent death of innocent men where the accused were found not guilty. The only difference seems to be that in this case, the accused was not a police man, so there’s no uproar saying they should still be punished despite being found not guilty.