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Chelsea 1

Member since
June 2021

878 posts

Posted Wed April 27, 2022 8:40amReport post

Hello ladies.

Something is bugging me last night.

So before court you can do as you please. See family go on holidays to the beach. Go supermarket. Anywhere.

While under RUI.

Once courts happen boom ????. You are restricted.

You havnt changed will being on RUI to the end of court. It's a joke.

Xx

SAL

Member since
December 2021

890 posts

Posted Wed April 27, 2022 8:55amReport post

I think this is because before court you are not guilty. You have not been through the judicial system. Innocent until proven guilty.

Unless the evidence or circumstances mean the accused right to freedom until proven guilty is out weighed by the risk to others. For example being held in remand or those with children having SS involved. Obviously we are talking about our loved ones and we think we know them well enough to understand whether they are a risk. If you look at it a different way if you were a parent of a child who was in a photo or had been at the end of communication, then you may find it incomprehensible that anyway would have any freedom whilst under investigate. It is a difficult line to draw. I can understand both perspectives.

The was a article on radio 4 about a rape victim and it taking over 3 years for a convictions to come to court, I know this is different because it's a contact offence and not related to children, but in the road to supporting our loved ones it is easy to forget there are real victims, whilst the wait has been terrible there are victims out there for whom the wait has been even more painful.

Edited Wed April 27, 2022 8:58am

SAL

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Posted Wed April 27, 2022 8:56amReport post

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Edited Wed April 27, 2022 8:58am

BaffledB

Member since
July 2021

874 posts

Posted Wed April 27, 2022 9:30amReport post

I know what you mean, I think with these cases it seems unfair that they would have the same restrictions in some cases as those with contact offences (not taking away the impact that communication and images can have on victims). It's like the troll accounts you get online who send horrible messages to people and behave appallingly, by the same logic as what is applied to online offences here, we are saying that trolls pose a risk to people in real life when actually they (mostly) would never physically harm anyone or say those things in "real life". I personally think prevention is key in dealing with these kinds of offences rather than punishment and especially in the cases of decoys. Maybe I'm thinking about things wrong.