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This is an issue that has vexed me for years.

How often have any of us criminal practice been faced with an arrest that was entirely unjustified and based on no evidence whatsoever ? The sheer cost of pursuing a Wrongful Arrest and Misfeasance in Public Office case is prohibitive to all but the independently wealthy, and there is no doubt that the fact of such arrest remaining on the PNC records is directly detrimental to the individual concerned.

There is a wealth of difference between "no evidence" and "insufficient evidence". If there is no evidence, then the NFA decision should confirm precisely that, and also confirm that the records relating to the arrest have been removed - fat chance !

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