one rule for us ...

[ramtops]

so ... those arrested yesterday on suspicion of trying to blow up bombs have had their assets frozen. And the Bank of England has published their names on its web site. Amongst them is

PATEL, Abdul, Muneem
DOB: 17/04/1989
Address: London, E5

by my calculation, he is 17. And this confirms my thought that Section 44 of the 1999 Act (if brought into force in full) would automatically prevent reporting of any matter which might lead the public to identify a person under 18 as a potential defendant, victim or witness as soon as a criminal investigation has begun.

so this boy surely should be afforded the same protection.

Comments

[loveandgarbage.livejournal.com]

With the Bulger case the children were not named until after the verdict. The judge issued an order allowing them to be named. This only followed a petition by the Mirror Group after the jury retired in the case. MGN had bought the rights to the story of a child allegedly subject to an earlier kidnap attempt that day. (Described in Blake Morrison's As If at pp 225 - 6. Morrison is (as I was at the time) uncomfortable about this, wondering what useful purpose was served by it.)

[mort666.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I could have sworn that at the time they where named up front. Mind you my memory is not what is was.

Either way, I realised after I posted that before the 1999 Act obviously came in after the Bulger case and probably changed anything that happened before.

It seems the publication of these names stired up something in Westminster today, but it seems they had to publish the names under the UN Sanctions that the money is seized under or else it seems that they would not be able to prosecute anyone that actually attempted to access the assets seized.