> isn't it normally standard procedure that if the person refuses to be searched, they'll be jailed?
Yes, but with this idiot law the police don't need a warrant, just a suspicion. Then you have to prove yourself innocent rather than them proving you guilty. With luck the European Court will throw it out, but that needs some poor guy to go through the wringer first.
The Telegraph is as behind the times as ever. There was an SF novel published last year (Time by Stephen Baxter) which uses Cruithne as a plot device. The actual scientific announcement of Cruithne's somewhat unusual orbit was probably in 1998, but I'm not at home so can't check my references.
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> isn't it normally standard procedure that if the person refuses to be searched, they'll be jailed?
Yes, but with this idiot law the police don't need a warrant, just a suspicion. Then you have to prove yourself innocent rather than them proving you guilty. With luck the European Court will throw it out, but that needs some poor guy to go through the wringer first.
The Telegraph is as behind the times as ever. There was an SF novel published last year (Time by Stephen Baxter) which uses Cruithne as a plot device. The actual scientific announcement of Cruithne's somewhat unusual orbit was probably in 1998, but I'm not at home so can't check my references.