The Guildford 4 and Maguire 7 were all innocent and had alibis for the night. The police would have known they were innocent. So how could they do what they did to leave the real murderers on the streets?
You can understand - although disagree - with them trying to cut corners to get a confession, but if tehy're clearly innocent, how can you justify doing that?
They can justify "cutting corners" by saying beforehand that the suspects are guilty.
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You couldn't be further off the mark. This wasn't shoddy Police work. This was very hard work by the Police to convict the wrong people. It might have taken less effort to catch the real culprits.
Your's sincerely, General Joseph Liebgott
It's ironic that actual proper police work saved the day.
The corrupt police (they're worse now) backed themselves into a corner after they had used torture to get confessions. They didn't feel that they could simply let the innocent go free. This would have meant they had got it wrong.
I wanted to be a detective when I was a kid, but was talked out of it by an actual detective. He told me the Police force was no place for good and honest people and that the job I wanted simply did not exist anywhere but on TV.
They're corrupt and wicked people, worse than the villains.
"There must be some way outta here" said the Joker to the Thief.
The movie makes it quite clear why they did that...
Because of the horror of the bombing campaign in Engand, there was a huge public outcry and therefore intense pressure was put on the police to find the people responsible.
It's all about media hype, they needed to find some people who could look "believable" as the terrorists, so they could tell the public that they had done their job and found those responsible.
Maybe they actually believed that they were guilty at first, because they wanted to believe it so badly...
And then when they found that their alibi was valid, it was too late to go back and admit they had made a mistake.
I think what this case shows is the danger of judicial decisions made in the context of very strong public outrage...
Guilt has nothing to do with it. The police exist to maintain order, not to "keep us safe" or "fulfill justice". They therefore seem to have performed quite satisfactorily in this case
shareThey needed to have a response to the bombing - convictions of those who they could say were responsible.
The police probably knew that they'd have little chance finding, arresting, and convicting the real bombers - so they found some likely suspects, and pinned it on them.
It's a f-ing disgrace what happened.