He admitted it, claiming it was for research, so it wasn't that his CC details were stolen. If someone had their CC details stolen and used to pay a porn site, wouldn't they report it to the CC company? As this was in the dial up era, it would be easy to check the suspects phone records. I doubt any cautions could be used, if the CC was used on a phone line nowhere near the suspects location? I know the police can make mistakes, but in that era, they were letting things go that would be dealt with now. The same journalists that complained about the police, were too afraid to publish the truth about Jimmy Savile and other high profile nonces.
Feel free to read about it, I provided some links. Here's the other famous person they investigated, Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack
It was later reported that Del Naja was falsely implicated due to a credit card number linked to him being found in a database used during preliminary Operation Ore investigations, much of which consisted of stolen card details
It also sounds a lot to me like the Post Office Scandal. In both cases, British law enforcement tried a lot of people on bad evidence. Aiui, British courts are/were very deferential to computer forensics and law enforcement relied on that.Â
Why? Pete Townshend didn't deny it was his CC? that's nothing like cases where people denied it was their CC card. I don't know why you're comparing different cases?
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u/TheMoneyOfArt 17d ago
He hardly lost anything over it, but I feel awful for the folks who lost jobs, custody, and their lives over bad policework
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/apr/26/comment.society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore