The UK legal system is a bit different than the US one. Thinking about the situation, there are a few things I don’t quite understand.
First, he was arrested (ie, taken into custody and questioned) but has he actually been charged with the crimes? My understanding is no but I’m not sure. That he is on “bail” is a little confusing as in the US bail happens after you’ve been charged.
Second, what does it mean for him to also have been arrested (while already in custody) for the previous offenses? Is that just some kind of formality that allows them to question him about those?
This will end up like Gylfi where we never officially hear his name mentioned anywhere and then the club just quietly releases the player from his contract a year from now.
Except Gylfi wasn’t convicted of anything and Everton had to pay him off but he never played for them again.
Isn’t he on a longer contract than Sigurdsson tho? This was Sigurdsson’s last year on his contract, we have a multi year deal with Partey I believe, unless we pay a compensation fee to release him
I guess what’s confusing to me is that they opted not to arrest him for those prior allegations previously and that assumedly had no new evidence about them, just the occurrence of a new and separate allegation. But they arrested him for the prior allegations on that basis.
Yeah, I can see that being interpreted badly.
Tbf to @BigWeng_4LYFE, if we go back and analyze everything that was said about this, we would have a bunch of people banned, probably me included.
Just the text in isolation can make posts being construed differently by different people.
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