article_snippet.sent: Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders was forced into a humiliating climbdown after a jury threw out yet another Old Old Bailey case.
article_snippet.sent: Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders decision sparked an ugly blame game as the architects of the £20million ‘politically-motivated witch hunt’ turned against each other.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors and police pointed the finger at the Leveson inquiry and MPs for whipping up a storm of hysteria over the work of the Press.
article_snippet.sent: The man in charge at the start of the tainted Met Police probe into tabloid journalists – Operation Elveden – was former DPP and now Labour parliamentary candidate Keir Starmer.
article_snippet.sent: Some of the most senior judges in Britain criticised how the archaic law of misconduct in public office – under which prosecutions were brought – had been applied, fatally undermining other cases.
article_snippet.sent: The CPS move leaves Operation Elveden in tatters.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors faced a furious attack in the wake of yesterday’s decision.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Saunders said the original police inquiry was ‘inevitable’ and left prosecutors with a ‘duty’ to act.