Spamming for justice?

Those convinced that there was a miscarriage of justice in the Louise Nicholas - police rape case have turned to a new tool to spread their message: spam. This is just obnoxious (spam is spam, no matter how high you believe your purpose is) - but it also shows how little the authorities can do when faced with this sort of concerted campaign and some simple technology. And if they do manage to track down the culprits, then they'll be forced to answer some tough questions about why they can't do the same for the scumbags who daily clog our mailboxes with ads for fake degrees, porn sites and pirated software.

This case is also highlighting how secrecy is absolutely toxic to justice. I think there were good reasons for withholding the information from the jury, and good reasons for its continued suppression - but the fact of that suppression is doing far more to undermine the verdict than the information itself does (if only by making it very difficult to explain why without risking getting into trouble). There's a saying that justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done - and I think if the information had not been suppressed, or if people could talk about it a little more, then the public would be rather more understanding of the outcome.