Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post

I would suspect (and hope) there is substantial evidence to justify his detention, and I just hope the police investigation is sound, so that if he goes to court, it does not get thrown out at the first hurdle.
Well unless they have some 'hard evidence' which of course we cannot know at the moment whether they do or don't, I cannot believe that anyone after this length of time will 'put hands up'.

Eye witnesses at the time would make good witnesses, but with the passing of so much time since the crime, and the age of the potential witnesses at the time, they will still have to go some to obtain a guilty verdict.