"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Simon Jones wrote:
If you were a witness to someone committing a crime, you personally
could
then call them a criminal. Anyone else doing it is simply guessing.

Not if they have other evidence like what is on their CCTV,
or a report of what someone else has seen, or something
left behind by the criminal that identifies them.

Relying on someone else's opinion of who is a criminal

I'm not talking about someone else's opinion, saying that if
someone else has seen that in vidual leaving your house, that’s
as good as you having seen that yourself if they are reliable.

is exactly the
point I was making. The sort of people who discover they have a
paediatrician living nearby and think that is a paedophile. And burn their
house down.

That isnt what happens when someone else sees the criminal leaving
your house or sees them driving your car that they have stolen.