DPP asked to resign for not prosecuting former MP Greville Janner

The Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales is facing calls to resign after she was forced into a U-turn over her decision not to charge former MP Greville Janner for alleged child sex crimes.

DPP asked to resign for not prosecuting former MP Greville Janner

An independent review overturned Alison Saunders’ original ruling that the former Labour peer should not face action because he is suffering from Alzheimer’s.

A trial of the facts, where a jury hears the evidence against an individual considered too ill for a full trial, is now expected to be held into the 22 offences, allegedly committed in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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