article_snippet.sent: The Director of Public Prosecutions was under growing pressure to stand down last night over Alison Saunders failure to put Lord Janner on trial for serious child abuse offences.
article_snippet.sent: Birthday visit: Lord Janner, right with cake, took Michael Jackson - who was repeatedly accused of child abuse but cleared in court - on tour of Parliament in 2002, together with their mutual friend of Uri Gellar and US magician David Blaine (centre, left).
article_snippet.sent: It was the birthday of Labour MP Paul Boateng, alongside Janner .
article_snippet.sent: ’ Former DPP Lord Macdonald of River Glaven said justice would have been better if Lord Janner had undergone a procedure whereby a jury can decide on the facts of a case without apportioning guilt and without a sentence being passed, if a suspect is unfit to plead.
article_snippet.sent: Lord Janner added: ‘It might have been wiser for the Crown Prosecution Service to say,
article_snippet.sent: ’’ ’ Adam Simmonds, Police and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire, said the decision not to charge Lord Janner on Thursday made the decision not to charge Lord Janner on Thursday a ‘dark day for our justice system’.
article_snippet.sent: Lord Janner added: ‘A substantial number of victims of child abuse, who have carried the weight of such heinous crimes with victims of child abuse for the best part of two decades, have been terribly let down in the worst possible way.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Lord Janner said the DPP’s ruling went against DPP previously stated commitment to seek justice for victims, no matter how old the allegations.
article_snippet.sent: Leicestershire Constabulary, which has investigated Lord Janner four times over the past 25 years, is considering an unprecedented legal challenge against the decision not to charge Lord Janner on Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: A CPS employee with no prior involvement in the Lord Janner case would consider if Her decision in the Lord Janner case was the right one.
article_snippet.sent: Alleged victims of Lord Janner will eventually be able to share Alleged victims of Lord Janner experiences with the long-delayed public inquiry into historic child abuse to be chaired by New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard.
article_snippet.sent: The CPS’s handling of previous investigations into Lord Janner is also being reviewed by retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The DPP is there to make Her decision in the Lord Janner case.
article_snippet.sent: A year earlier, I’d met police officers from Leicestershire to discuss the case police officers were putting together against Lord Janner.
article_snippet.sent: When the Home Secretary says the Home Secretary’s ‘very concerned’, Lord Janner is critical, and Leicestershire Police are talking about a legal challenge