But why is it the one case is major national news and will lead undoubtedly to more legislation, when the other very similar case hasn't even touched the radar screen? well I'm going to speculate why: the first is that Sarah went missing in London, and Lorraine went missing in Exeter, and our media, our media focus is so London-centric that things that happen in London seem to matter more than what goes on out in the provinces. But there's a deeper part of this story: the person that was arrested and is going through a trial at this moment in time gave his name to the police as Christopher Mayer but that wasn't his name, that was a false name. IT WAS ACTUALLY AZAD MANGORI, and he was a filed asylum seeker who come to this country from Iraq. As I say I'm not prejudging either of these cases, we got to be very careful not to do that, but I think frankly that for those that have been behind many of these demonstrations ---ongoing demonstrations --- A MALE, A WHITE MALE IN HIS FORTIES WITH A SHAVED HEAD WAS IN MANY WAYS THE IDEAL PERSON FOR THEM TO BE SEEN TO BE PROTESTING AGAINST AND EVEN BETTER FOR THOSE WHO WANTED TO MAKE POLITICAL CAPITAL OUT OF SARAH EVERARD'S DEATH HE WAS A SERVING POLICE OFFICER.

The other of course it would have been for many on the Marxist side of politics too difficult and too inconvenient to point out who Azam Mangari actually was @Beanz