WOULD some legal eagle kindly explain to me why four people boast of having broken into private premises and destroying equipment worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, apart from possibly jeopardising an export order worth millions of pounds, can be found not guilty of the crime?

It has been shown, over the past few years especially, that our legal system - once admired throughout the world - is sadly in need of overhaul, before it descends to the depths of the US system.

What a can of worms has been opened by the verdict. Has it given the green light to all the other crackpot minority groups to extend their campaigns of civil disobedience, hopefully, they may conjecture, without fear of legal retribution?

Justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done. Or is the law really an ass?

NAME and address received.

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