Mr. Matthew Elderfield:

I think the cases the Director of Public Prosecutions is running with are based on the law that existed at the time of the offences. I have absolute sympathy with the DPP in that you must measure twice, three times or four times before you cut, and then you go on this and build the strongest case possible. I have a huge amount of sympathy for the difficult job they will have in making progress on these cases. I want to be absolutely clear that this is not a criticism of the DPP; it is a call for a stock take, a step back and a look at the issue in the round to see if we can do this better. I think we can do it better.