Thanet's (excessive) CCTV is legally irrelevant
Written by Matt B · first published 04/06/2012
Is this the death of CCTV?
When magistrates announced that an open and shut case was to be dismissed because CCTV images were
With image quality sufficient to identify and arrest the man shown being said to be not proof of guilt one has to ask what the point of CCTV is in the first place. At least as it stands now.
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I'll be addressing this issue further.
When magistrates announced that an open and shut case was to be dismissed because CCTV images were
not clear enoughthey may have owned up to the worthlessness of CCTV.
With image quality sufficient to identify and arrest the man shown being said to be not proof of guilt one has to ask what the point of CCTV is in the first place. At least as it stands now.
THE trial has collapsed of a man accused of swinging a cat around by its tail outside Ramsgate's Camden Arms. Magistrates decided that CCTV images showing the incident, in October last year, were not clear enough to proceed with the case.
I'll be addressing this issue further.
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