I hear you, but NM’s first bunch of offences were well before “austerity”, well before COVID, and the courts crisis.
Well yes, but as we know, in the last 10-15 years Police Forces have struggled with workload, so it does not surprise me that few resources could be spared for someone who left the local area
Ditto problems with CPS and trial management is partly due to 2 decades of under funding
Indeed this case shows how vast resource was poured into solving a crime that could have been prevented with a much smaller investment of resource in boring police admin resourcing.