Believe me you are preaching to the converted - just as the papers are saying “he should have stayed local” (which Dovestones is)
apart from the fact that “local” is guidance and not law - something the police and the media seem to have difficulty distinguishing between.
my point was (apart from telling the user who asked what Scholes had done) was in law it’s the 4 other people that make it an issue
then again, it’s not like GMP have 80,000 unrecorded crimes to find is it?