Ken Macdonald (page viii)

The new Director of Public Prosecutions gave his first media briefing in February 2004. Asked about his convictions as a student for possessing and procuring cannabis, Ken Macdonald said they would have no bearing at all on the policy of the Crown Prosecution Service’s towards drug prosecutions.
“I take a straightforward prosecutor’s view,” he said. Parliament makes the law and we apply that law to our work. If you’re asking me whether my view of these issues is affected by my experience 34 years ago, the answer is ‘no’.”

Posted at March 1, 2004 12:01 AM