SO PETER Sutcliffe has yet been found guilty of the 'Ripper' murders, after all.
Sir Havers Qc. the Attorney General, no less, wrote Street editors to remind them of this fact last week.
Havers was reacting to media treatment handed Sutcliffe, and vul reminded journalists 'of the vital principle bodied in English law that a man accused of a crime, nowever serious, is presumed to be innocent and is entitled to a fair trial' Havers attack on the way which had tried and convicted Sutcliffe within hours his arrest was reinforced the following day by the Press Council, which announced that it would hold inquiry into the coverace *ot the events leading up to and concern ing Pete Sutcliffe's pearance before Dewsbury magistrates'.
Conscience Even The Times joined the parade of stricken conscience by thundering: 'Rarely in modern times can the media have acted such disregard for the law and the fundamental tenets of British justice.
Great, strident this poster, the nhotogranhs and the can tions, with the comment made bv he limes on the Sutcliffe case:
'Nevertheless newspaper at least published a photograph of the accused. woer must rave Strong hossible t possibility identification would be in issue at the trial?
The media's verdict of against Gerard Tuite was further extended last week with the bomb at Ionowing the earlier one at Bromley-byBow gasworks.