LIKE Mrs Craythorne (Chad front page, 16th April), I am appalled at the decision by the Crown Prosecution to reduce the charge of grievous bodily harm on an unprovoked attack on an innocent victim to the much lower charge of common assault.
The director of the Crown Prosecution Service for Nottinghamshire should be made to explain to the public why this took place.
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I understand that the Crown Prosecution have targets to meet and a consequence of this is that if they do not have an 80% chance of securing a conviction, they opt for a lesser charge to avoid a trial.
Is this justice?
I think when one sees the result of the unprovoked attack they will sympathise with Mrs Craythorne's opinion, as it appears that the assailants come off best.
We seem to have departed from the system of British justice where the courts made the decision via a trial, to one where the Crown Prosecution make the decisions based on them having an 80% chance of a conviction at a trial.
No wonder our police force are frustrated. I look forward to the Director of the crown prosecutions reply.
ALLAN A. McLEAN,Egmanton Road, Meden Vale
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