Three wrongly accused over child abuse images after BT gets ‘wires crossed’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgknm8xrgpo
Posted by kwentongskyblue
Three wrongly accused over child abuse images after BT gets ‘wires crossed’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgknm8xrgpo
Posted by kwentongskyblue
6 Comments
Unfortunate for the three involved but hopefully they can pursue BT for damages.
This stinks of a certain type of parasitic lawyer trying for an easy “here’s a few grand to fuck off, no admission of liability” from the Constabulary and biting off more than they could chew.
That’s insane. Life ruined over a literal crossed wire.
And if you’ve ever read The Secret Barrister you’ll know that this kind of thing happens all the time and the justice system is faaaar from foolproof. There are plenty of people in prison over crimes they didn’t commit.
No grounds for compensation. 🙄 They had their lives turned upside down. Disgraceful
I think it’s disgusting that this happened in 2016 and is only coming to light now, almost 10 years later.
I see the technician in those cabinets the whole time, I bet there are of thousands of similarly crossed wires. I should be able to go to a website for my isp, and type in a street address and get “yes, that’s the address on your supply agreement,” or some other message like that “nope, you’re connected to the internet through our service but the supply address isn’t that” and “you’re on the internet right now through O2 mobile we think, reconnect to Wi-Fi and try again”