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Brommers
What exactly does 'not refer the case to the CPS' mean?
True story: back when I was a spritely lad just out of university, I had a temp job working for the CPS helping set up their new system where they would have CPS lawyers in or accessible to police stations, and it was going to become the job of the duty prosecutor to decide whether to bring charges based on the likelyhood of winning the case, or tell the officers to get more evidence or whatnot. The purpose of this was to increase conviction rates. Obviously this also meant cases that were considered not certain of winning would get dropped completely so as to not lower the all important conviction rates.
But what does it mean if they don't even refer it to the CPS? Does this mean the officers involved decided they had no intention of charging the driver regardless of available evidence and didn't even bother contacting the CPS to ask if it's worth charging them?
A man was killed, and the police's reaction was "ah, fuck it"?
Because if it's that, then, well ... fuck the police.