[Molasar]

irrespective of guilt or innocence (and I have my own opinions on some of them) it is a travesty to suddenly arrest anyone on allegations made for the first time today claiming an allegation of rape 50 (yes, fifty) years ago.
there is no evidence either way, no witnesses, nothing.
(In the case of Nazis arrested 50 years after there was a 50 year hunt and evidence preserved and affidavits taken at the time,)
in most of these cases in Britain there has been no accusation, no allegation, and nothing to investigate except a claim by someone who may, or not, be a victim, or a shit stirrer or not, or a frustrated blackmailer or not.
the only way to reach a verdict is on balance of probabilities or credibilities but these are criminal charges and therefore can only be found guilty beyond reasonable doubt, probability is not allowed and that's all that exists in most of these cases.

even if some of the accused are guilty it now cannot be proved without a confession, so if they keep quiet they must legally be found not guilty and freed, anything else is an abuse of process.

it's likely on the publicity that one or two or more of these are guilty, but there are too many people being caught in a shotgun splatter of new accusations alleging god knows what god knows when, 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years ago whether there's a reason or not.
apart from anything else, if some cop demanded you provide an alibi for some random night 30/40/50+ years ago could you?
no fucking way, but we still look down on these celebs because they can't either. we deserve to be shit on by our legal system if we tolerate this.

top and bottom is that it's impossible to have a fair trial so guilty or not is irrelevant, it's still just a witchhunt.