WAR ON BLACKMAIL
SECRECY FOR VICTIMS. A Home Office instruction has been sent to all police courts in England advising that steps should be taken tc preserve the anonymity of prosecutors in blackmail cases. Previously the power to suppress names has been a recclmmendation made by the court. In London and every big city there are blackmailing gangs who prey on the fear of their victims. Scotland Yard has recently brought many members of the gangs to court without disclosing the victim’s identity, and if the knowledge became general that the blackmailer could be fought anonymously this terror to hundreds of men and women would soon be ended. The new instructions suggest methods of preserving secrecy that have been evolved following conferences between Home Office officials, police and members of the legal profession.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3894, 26 April 1937, Page 3
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133WAR ON BLACKMAIL Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3894, 26 April 1937, Page 3
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