A friend of mine is in trouble :(

Surveyor said:
Even if it turns out he's innocent he can't successfully sue for being arrested, charged and prosecuted unless those things were done maliciously.

Being embarrassed doesn't give him a legal cause of action.
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I agree, was thinking more about if a newspaper run the story he he could sue the newspaper I guess. If the police are acting on good faith then yeah they can't be sued.

Still sad to see this sort of thing happen though...
 
Mammalian said:
ok change it for many many movies. i know possession of the file isn't illegal, but would they, assuming they think the files have been illegally download, be able to pass the info on to anyone who then may deal with it?
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No, it doesn't work like that. You seem to be mistaking illegal with criminal.
 
You need to deploy the Andy McNab / Bravo Two Zero technique...

"Exposure?.. did it look like this?"
*pulls pants down to reveal todger
... compares suspects todger to that on file ...
"You're free to go".
 
Is he in his 80s and australian?

In all seriousness, facebook tracks quite a lot of information about users that login, I think it should probably be relatively easy to prove his innocence.
 
wannabedamned said:
Tonight I decided I was a bit fedup with the fact no one actually seems to be trying to clear his name. So I sent a request off to hotmail, to get access back to the hotmail account that I know is associated with his hacked facebook account.
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So the police are trying to find out who is accessing that hotmail account... because whoever it is is apparently a massive sex pest.... and you thought it would be a good idea to try and get access to it yourself???? Not only getting yourself involved, your IP logged etc.. but potentially locking out the very person they're trying* to catch.....

I reckon you'd be better off just leaving it and let your friend's solicitor deal with it.

*(or will be, once they've finished with your friend)
 
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Sorry but I have to assume there is way more to this.

Facebook track every log in, IP/location, even what kind of device. It would be trivial for the police to obtain this, then check with a UK ISP what the actual address is. If its not a UK ISP, its not him!
They have evidence of exposure via webcam. Why have the police not just had him whack his wang out and compared it to the video evidence?
If his account was used again since the confiscation of his electricals, and arrest, it would only take a single complaint for him to be re-arrested and kept in custody. Which actually might help, especially if its accessed again while he is in a cell.

I call shenanigans.
 
I think it's unlikely that the Police will have evidence that can be linked to your friend in anything more than a superficial way if he's genuinely not involved.
 
And this is why Facebook are charging a monthly fee on Jan 1st.

:D

Seriously though why are you even getting involved, esp trying to access the suspicious hotmail acct, during a criminal investigation. :confused:
 
diamount said:
The OP already said his 'friend' doesn't have internet so how can they cross-reference IP's if there is only one? I guess they can query Microsoft what the IP was with the creation date but that was probably a long time ago and people change ISP's often.
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I'm referring to them tracking who has actually been logging into the accounts recently. If it points to an address that isn't his or somewhere e has access to it suggests he is telling the truth at least
 
Woden said:
Sorry but I have to assume there is way more to this.

Facebook track every log in, IP/location, even what kind of device. It would be trivial for the police to obtain this, then check with a UK ISP what the actual address is. If its not a UK ISP, its not him!
They have evidence of exposure via webcam. Why have the police not just had him whack his wang out and compared it to the video evidence?
If his account was used again since the confiscation of his electricals, and arrest, it would only take a single complaint for him to be re-arrested and kept in custody. Which actually might help, especially if its accessed again while he is in a cell.

I call shenanigans.
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Things like this don't progress quite as quickly as they do on TV.
As for 'displaying' his 'evidence', can you really see the police saying, "Come on Sir, this'll all go away much quicker if you just pull it out". Imagine the lawsuit.
 
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