The jury watched a video showing some of the alleged conspirators in animated discussion. |
This is as if the Spycatcher affair ten years ago hadn't showed MI5 to be a nest of hard right conspirators. |
There was no remorse or guilt in any of the conspirators, only pride at doing the right thing. |
Two of the alleged conspirators have already been set free in Germany for the same reason. |
The rest of the known conspirators were hunted down or died while resisting arrest. |
In the case of a conspiracy to defraud by wholescale misappropriation it would be absurd to argue that the conspirators did not intend just that. |