>> Должны быть докзательства. Верю/не верю в суде не прокатывает.
> Факт отсутствия помощи властям есть. По законам Соединённого Королевства, это деяние наказуемо.
> "Забыл" и прочие оправдания никого не волнуют.Скорее факт "анонимы слышали звон и с тех пор прилежно повторяют заголовки желтых изданий"?
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/53
> In proceedings against any person for an offence under this section, if it is shown that that person was in possession of a key to any protected information at any time before the time of the giving of the section 49 notice, that person shall be taken for the purposes of those proceedings to have continued to be in possession of that key at all subsequent times, unless it is shown that the key was not in his possession after the giving of the notice and before the time by which he was required to disclose it.
> For the purposes of this section a person shall be taken to have shown that he was not in possession of a key to protected information at a particular time if—
> (a)sufficient evidence of that fact is adduced to raise an issue with respect to it; and
> (b)the contrary is not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
Т.е. не в сферическо-вакуумном конструкте "я тут один раз сделал cat /dev/urandom >> drugs_and_cp, и тут меня взяли за компанию по подозрению в торговле наркотой и …", требуются доказательства наличия ключа.
https://www.ipco.org.uk/docs/OSC Annual Report 2014-15.pdf
> reported that 88 approvals were granted arising from 89 applications. Permission was
> not sought in ten cases after NTAC approval.
> 37 Notices have, so far, been served in the span of this report. Of these, nine were
> complied with and 22 were not
> 4.19. So far, in the period of this report, NTA C has been informed that there have
> been three convictions, with other cases still in progress
> 4.20. One conviction related to the charge of possession of indecent images of children,
> one to threats to kill, and one to murder.
88 запросов разрешили, 37 "извещений" ушло - 9 выполнили требования, 22 отказалось, осуждено 3.