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Judge criticises bungling CPS

Criminals are escaping justice because of a lack of organisation within the Crown Prosecution Service, a judge said.

Aidan Marron, QC, who sits at London crown courts, said jurors acquitted defendants in at least two cases where they should have been convicted because they had simply lost patience.

He reprimanded prosecutors in one court for putting an incoherent map in front of jurors and for not arranging witnesses to appear at the right time.

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