A "criminal" investigation

I'll get to Pete's new chapters soon but first I really have to get this off my chest:

Operation Ore flawed by fraud

New evidence I have gathered for my work as an expert witness in defence cases shows that thousands of cases under Operation Ore have been built on the shakiest of foundations - the use of credit card details to sign up for pornography websites. In many cases, the card details were stolen; the sites contained nothing or legal material only; and the people who allegedly signed up to visit the sites never went there...

...In all, 7,272 British residents were on its target lists, more than 2,000 of whom have never been investigated; and 39 men have killed themselves under the pressure of the investigations.

I've been hearing this for years and the article doesn't even cover the fact that the list of names barely made it to the U.K. before someone in Scotland Yard gave (sold?) it to The Times. Pete may have been the most famous victim but he certainly wasn't the most damaged as you can see above. A criminal investigation designed to help innocent victims was turned by the British police into an investigation that was criminal and created more innocent victims. Disgusting.

And don't give me that crap about "Pete admitted he went there so that doesn't count." He only had to come forward because the press was just about to tell everyone it was him, his story checked out completely, he never downloaded any porn to his computers and now his reputation has been tainted in the eyes of many people. Had a private investigation been properly handled, no one would have ever known his name was on the list. Bastards!