It is worth noting that the original release of these two men also happened on a Friday evening. Again, that’s not proof of anything but it seems likely to me that this whole thing has been extensively media managed.

There’s no smoke without fire, and there’s no innocence with ‘not enough evidence’.

I agree that when a report’s released last thing on a Friday afternoon before a bank holiday, that’s normally a sign that someone wants to bury it, since you can control when a report’s released and it doesn’t much matter if comes out on the Tuesday following the bank holiday.

However, consider this scenario. Someone at the CPS finishes reviewing Mr Kahar’s file on a Thursday afternoon. Nothing odd about that — it’s just that’s the way it’s worked out with CPS chap’s and his colleagues’ workload. They decide no action is to be taken.

What are they supposed to do? They can’t really announce their prosecution decisions to the press before the people concerned have been notified. Mr Kahar’s presumably anxious to know as soon as possible whether he’s being prosecuted or not. Do they hold off telling him until Monday and let him and his family spend the weekend worrying unnecessarily, in case it looks bad for them if they don’t hold off?

Or do they tell him on Friday and not issue a statement until Monday, which’ll have everyone saying they only released the news because the news papers Mr Kahar and his supporters had, understandably, told he wasn’t being prosecuted had been phoning up the CPS to ask about it?

I’m not denying the possibility that news management has taken place here, but I’d certainly want more evidence than the simple fact of when the news was announced.