Security and House Arrest

My wife is a barrister and my son is a solicitor involved in important criminal cases.

It is my belief based on what they have told me, that if someone is held openly and tried in a criminal court, then other evidence often comes forward about the case. Some of this convicts the defendant, but much of it absolves them.

It is for this and other humanitarian reasons, that I am totally against detention without an open trial and especially where the accused does not even know the charge.

As a final thought, weren’t Stalin, Hitler, Pinochet, Franco and others good at detention without trial?