Saturday, November 03, 2007

Apparently, the buck stops nowhere.

Should Sir Ian Blair resign in the wake of the jury finding the Met guilty in the Menezes trial? It certainly seems unbelievable that an innocent man, acting in a perfectly innocent manner, could be summarily executed on (or more precisely, under) the streets of London without anybody bearing - or even being prepared to accept - any responsibility for what happened. Perhaps the most gob-smacking aspect of all this is Sir Ian's explanation of why he feels he should not resign. He said that the case had "shown no evidence of systematic failure" by his force. All I can say is, if this is an example of the system working properly, then Gawd 'elp us all!

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