Sword of Damocles - part II

I talked about this business of police bail back in 2007 in relation to Michael Barrymore.  The recent decision that the police have only 96 hours to charge a suspect or release him/her, and this applies whether they are in custody or out on police bail, is almost certainly going to be overturned - either on appeal, or by new legislation, but it does I think highlight the need for there to be a definitive limit on how long the police can keep people dangling on this piece of string called police bail.  There's too much of this idea of "we'll arrest you now, and hope to find the evidence later" and open-ended police bail is all part of this invidious approach.