A whole lot of stolen goods with a high value amounting to hundreds of thousands of GBP are found in the house where you live with another. Those goods have been in your house for years and are on open display for all to see on a daily basis. You even wear some of the jewellery obtained by deceit while preening yourself for the television cameras.
You are arrested by the Police and questioned about those items. You make 'no comment' to all questions the Police put to you despite the duty of citizens generally to assist the Police in the investigation of crime. You offer the Police no explanation whatsoever as to why you are jointly in possession of stolen goods. And neither do you blame the other for possession of the stolen goods. You simply clam up like a hardened professional criminal in the style of Al Capone.
If you are, truly, innocent with nothing criminally on your conscience, would not the decent and proper thing to do be to explain to the Police how that stolen property came to be in your house in the first place and provide a full and detailed account thereof?
To us, as lay people, it appears a classic case where guilt or innocence should be determined in a Court of Law according to tried and tested Rules of Evidence. However, Scotland's Chief Prosecutor, Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, decides with a flourish of her pen not to prosecute you.
Welcome to Justice Scotland-Style.
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