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While I feel sorry for the family of the victim who they couldn't try her killer you'd have thought they could see the bigger picture.
Her killer has been found guilty of murder, will do life and everyone knows that he killed her (including the parole board) - and they found her body rather than spending a (possible) lifetime searching for her.
All this 'witch-hunt' will achieve is that the Detective (and any other one who reads/hears the story) will follow the 'rules', and more scrotes will 'win'.
and what if there hadn't been a second murder for him to be found guilty of?
He'd be walking free, even if there had been overwhelming evidence against him from sources other than the body, that's what.
The 'rules' are there to ensure that people don't get off on a technicality.
This DS sounds like a maverick who's watched too many cop shows. He was even briefing the press after being taken off the case and told not to.
The police, above anything, have to follow the law. Getting results isn't enough - you'd be back to driving suspects round in cars punching them until they confess if you take the view that results are all that matters.
They'd already found the first body.
and if there'd been a similar problem about the way the case was handled with that one?
the thing is it's not for a single police officer to decide when the rules don't apply.
If there'd been a conviction on the first murder and they'd then gone to the bloke and said 'look for the families sake just show us the body - you won;t face trial' and it had all been discussed by both the police and the victims family first then it would have been different.
But he went off on his own. And now he and the victims family are facing the consequences
La fin justifie les moyens.
Edit: I've translated the OP's quote and Googled it to find the closest match is a quote from Warren Buffet. Where does your quote come form, OP?
The DS was an idiot and should be fired from the force.
[i]Where does your quote come form, OP? [/i]
A Parisian I worked with said it to me when we were trying to put a system into a company in France, that he wasn't happy with 🙂