re: #113 ‘M AFFN FUN

Under the SYG law they couldn’t arrest or detain him as a suspect without first establishing a probable cause.

Not true. They chose not to arrest him, nothing in the law forced that decision. SYG is to be interpreted by judges, as a way of dismissing charges after they’ve been brought. Police can detain without charging for 48 hours, seek material witness warrants to detain longer, and file charges pending judicial review under the law. In this case the police may have looked at the prior number of cases that had been dismissed, but there was nothing under or about SYG that should have altered the investigation. Even under SYG what they did was misconduct.