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With a violent crime of such seriousness that the victim might lose his life, the Police would have taken the clothing of all those concerned and put them in paper suits. This does not happen in the film. Not even young privileged Oxford students, regardless of whom their lawyers were, would have avoided this part of the procedure.
Agreed. The landlord's DNA would've been on all of them. Nearly every single one battered him and Miles (who didn't) was still covered in his blood.
No way would they have got bail. Not with that level of violence. They even kept the clothes they'd been wearing.
If your dad plays golf with the justice minister or the head of the met I think a phone call is all you would need in this corrupt tory-ran UK. Look at Lord Lucan, his homicidal mischief with a lead-pipe practically inspired the game of Cluedo and he vanished without a trace while every policeman in London was looking for him. He probably lives on Antigua now and shares an allotment with Elvis.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov
Exactly! And that is why the whole story fell apart. If one wishes to tell a story about the unpunished debauchery of overly privileged "schoolboys," don't set it in the age of DNA testing, scientific crime scene investigation practices, social media and cellphones.
As you said, there is no way they would all have skipped out of the police station the next morning (with the clothes on their backs), free to determine among themselves which ONE of them had caused such mass destruction. And there is no way anyone would have believed that only one person perpetrated such atrocities, especially with crowds of witnesses, including the proprietor's daughter, who could testify to their behavior throughout the night. Ridiculous.