(SPOILER): I think this is really poor journalism to write this as though it had already happened, then, at the end it turns out to be fiction. Anyway, for th

(SPOILER): I think this is really poor journalism to write this as though it had already happened, then, at the end it turns out to be fiction. Anyway, for those of us who are ignorant of UK law: As for criminal prosecution, wouldn't this come down to a trial? Is there a right to a jury, like in the USA? All it takes is one (generally) juror to decide that justice would not be served by a conviction to stop the criminal-law process.