JANNER'S TRIAL OF THE FACTS ABANDONED

The "trial of the facts" in the case of Jenner and a multitude of people who claim that he molested them when they were children, was not destined to be a trial where punishment was meted out. 

Jenner's alleged dementia, the judge ruled, meant that that he was unfit to be tried or to take punishment should he be found guilty.

The trial was, rather, designed to give some sort of closure to his accusers and to highlight their cases against him. The state acknowledging their suffering as it were.

It was all quite proper under English law.

But it has been announced that, following his death, the trial will not go ahead.

I wonder why.

With George Thomas...and a party of children.

The judge had ruled that he would play no part in the trial; that it would be a trial, not of Janner, but of the facts in the cases. 

Whether he is alive or dead doesn't affect the capacity of the judge to hear that trial and to pronounce on it. He was incapable of giving evidence himself. Whether he was sitting at home alive, or not, and dead, makes no difference to that situation.

However, it seems the establishment will do whatever it takes to keep these matters under wraps and save "those and such as those" embarrassment, while people who allegedly suffered at Janner's hands are paid scant attention.

Whatever would have been the outcome, what an absolutely stinking rotten system.