Yes the crime had happened. It's literally why people took to the streets.
The point was people were counter protesting people angry at this crime. Can't be that unimaginable as people are defending the counter protest.
Badly worded, I meant hadn’t been confirmed to be committed by an immigrant. Finch leaked that detail out and was reprimanded for leaking information that could have jeopardised the trial.
Anyway to answer my own question that day was a day of nationwide anti-asylum seeker protests and counter-protests. As they were not centrally coordinated the police had thousands of riot police mobilised to respond where needed.
I would like to believe that anyone protesting the far right is not also pro rape. Find that a slightly odd conclusion to draw.
Just wish we’d concentrate on actually doing something rather than this strange back and forth which goes nowhere. It’s the same with the grooming gangs, rather than implement the previous recommendations we’re looking at more enquiries and a potential judicial review that have, as many predicted, brought a halt to everything.