Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
... 'Common' - a thought-provoking, one~off drama - on BBC1 at 9 o'clock last night?

Screened ahead of a proposed government debate on an archaic law known as "Joint Enterprise" ... a centuries'~old legal principle which, whenever a crime is committed, assigns collective "guilt" to a group ... even if only one of the group carries out the act itself!
I watched it too, very disturbing to think being in the wrong place can place someone responsible for the actions of others

The police SEEM to go for any conviction they can get

But if it was my child killed, how would I think then, is hard to imagine
Mick.