{"id":745,"date":"2009-05-07T08:47:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T07:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:26:03","slug":"12-year-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/745","title":{"rendered":"12 year sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge: The jury have returned their verdict and you have been found not guilty of all charges. I therefore sentence you to twelve years of suspicion; twelve years of wondering if there might be a knock on the door if you happen to have been near a place where a crime was committed; twelve years of being an automatic suspect for every new crime investigated.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/8037042.stm\">ruling to retain DNA samples<\/a> of people not charged or later acquitted of crimes means. The Home Secretary said &#8220;We will ensure that the most serious offenders are added to the database no matter when or where they were convicted&#8221; but these people were NOT convicted; in many cases they were not even charged.<\/p>\n<p>There is talk of them extending the 6\/12 year limit to fingerprints as well, but we know that is a joke&mdash;everyone&#8217;s fingerprints will be on the National Identity Database anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge: The jury have returned their verdict and you have been found not guilty of all charges. I therefore sentence you to twelve years of suspicion; twelve years of wondering if there might be a knock on the door if you happen to have been near a place where a crime was committed; twelve years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}