In article , michael adams
writes

"bert" wrote in message ...

In article , michael adams
writes


"Fredxx" wrote in message

A criminal is someone who has been caught, charged and sentenced.

Indeed.

A criminal is someone who has committed a criminal offence.

The presumption of innocence - that a person is innocent until proven
guilty in a Court of Law, has been a cornerstone of our British
Legal system and a bastions of our Liberty in this country
ever since the signing of Magna Carta in 1215.*

If you don't like the way we do things in this country Bert,
might I suggest you go and live somewhere else ?


Read what's there not what you want to be there.
If you commit a crime you become a "criminal" by definition.
As an individual charged with a crime you are presumed innocent until a
jury decides otherwise at which point you become a "convicted criminal".
Is that plain enough?
michael adams



* At a guess, this is most likely a banker question on the UK
Citizenship Test. So it's maybe just as well, for your sake if not
for anyone else's, that you're already living here. Otherwise you'd
have probably been sent back to wherever it was you came from.

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bert