i couldent see why they bothered with another murder chardge when she was allready doing a full life tarrif anyway unless of course the orginal conviction was strong engough not to be overturned
It's actually an attempted murder charge she's being retried on; all of the attempted murder charges failed originally as the jury couldn't reach a decision. It surprised me that they charged attempt murder in these circumstances as it's extremely difficult to prove to the relevant standard. GBH would have been sufficient given the actual murder charges which are easier to prove so if they failed on the murder charges they would never have got the AM ones. Even one of those being successful would have got her a very long sentence and, possibly, even a whole life order.
I tend to agree that I don't really think I see the point of pursuing this sole attempted murder charge when she's never getting out in any event. It can't make any difference.
The factors that the CPS must base their decision to prosecute on are that there is a) A realistic prospect of a conviction and, b) the prosecution must be "in the public interest". Obviously none of us are privy to the facts which swung the decision but from what we have seen so far it's difficult to see that those criteria are met.
She has already been given a very long and detailed trial which failed to reach a verdict in this particular case so what factors do the CPS think have changed to bring about a conviction months later? And, secondly, how does it meet the "public interest" hurdle? Whether she's convicted or not makes no difference to her, or society at large, because nothing will change. That being the case, then, it appears, on the face of it, to be positively
contrary the public interest because it will be yet more money spent on something the outcome of which is entirely irrelevant to anyone and more clogging up of the court system for no obvious benefit to the public interest.
I can only think that there may be some very specific legal point relating to this individual case that they want to meet but even that seems a bit thin as far as I can see.
All MOO, obvs.