The grandmother of a young tradie who died after being hit by a car has spoken about the huge gap in the legal system as they faced a 30-month wait for justice.
Familyâs battle after tradie s death The grandmother of a young tradie who died after being hit by a car has spoken about the huge gap in the legal system as they faced a 30-month wait for justice.
Crime by Grace Mason
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Subscriber only THE grieving grandmother of a young tradie who died after being hit by a car at Weipa said their family had been left feeling like spectators in their fight for justice during a gruelling 30-month court battle. Mary Jane Ahern said not enough support was offered to the families of victims during the legal process.
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5:36 PM January 13, 2021
Brandon Lynch, 21, was at his home on May 24, 2019, when Cambridgeshire police raided it. They had evidence he had been downloading illegal content.
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A man found with 15,000 indecent images and videos of children – plus a 170 page ‘paedophile manual’ - has been spared jail.
Brandon Lynch, 21, was at his home on May 24, 2019, when Cambridgeshire police raided it. They had evidence he had been downloading illegal content.
During a search, police seized five electrical items and seven mobile phones.
Analysis of the devices revealed 15,260 indecent images and videos of children.
Of these, 4,528 were category A – the most severe. In addition, 456 images or videos were identified that were classed as either prohibited, extreme or were indicative of a sexual interest in children.
It’s been a long, weird year, has 2020. A year that’s not gone as expected. A year that’s seen us lose people throughout wrestling, and unfortunately the wider world as we all came to terms with the global pandemic.
I’ve stopped, deleted and restarted writing this column multiple times – so as to not go into excruciating detail in a year that started out with promise, but ended up being one that a lot of us would probably want to forget.
2020 was the year where we all had “plans change” on us. It was the year where life changed. The year where staying at home became the new going out, and where we all had to find “a new normal.” Zoom became something other than a mocking catchphrase from Bob’s Burgers. Masks became mandatory outside of Hallowe’en. Keeping your distance from others was something you had to do for reasons other than smell.
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By Rachel Flint
There are fears the justice system could collapse as victims and defendants wait years for trials during the coronavirus pandemic.
While jury trials have resumed, a backlog of cases means some trials have been pushed back to 2023.
Now those representing victims and defendants in Wales have told the BBC trials could collapse due to the waits.
The UK government said it was investing record sums in justice, and opening temporary courts to clear cases.
By the end of February 2020, pre-Covid, the number of outstanding cases in crown court in England and Wales had reached 39,331, official figures show.