Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
It's the SIGNIFICANCE of what they did that counts ... i.e., insulting the memory of our war dead!
Sorry to keep on repeating this but it seems to have been misunderstood.

Insulting our dead is not a criminal offence, as distasteful and disgusting we may believe it to be.

In this case it that , in doing so, they also did, all of these:-

* three or more persons
* present together
* used or threatened
* unlawful violence
* so that the conduct of them (taken together) would cause
* a person of reasonable firmness
* present at the scene
* to fear for his or her personal safety.

Thus a section 2 offence, and that is what they have been charged with. If the prosecution cannot prove all these points, it appears, that a conviction will not be obtained.