[edblarney]

I'm very sympathetic to this guy. I understand how hard it might be to be accused of something.

That said - I don't feel this is a case for outrage.

Surely, most of his colleagues will be well informed of the mistake.

He received basically $100 000 in compensation. That's a lot of money.

Given the clarity of his exhoneration - i.e. this was not something that 'went to court' or there wasn't some kind of 'Michael Jackson style payoff' to keep someone quiet - and that it was an obvious police error - I think that any circumstances around is guilt should be relatively clear.

He is not a public figure - his personal reputation that 'matters' is limited to his colleagues, friends, family and the people he helps at work. That's a manageable thing from a PR perspective.

His $100 000 in 'compensation' can surely be enough to pay for some lifestyle helpers.

The notion that it was too much for him to go back to work, I think is a stretch. There should be no lingering doubt.

This is a sad story, I feel for him, but it's not one of the scary stories we here about that need serious redressing and law changes etc..

As far as his pursual of the police action - it's clear that this boiled down to a single digit in an IP address. That's it. Innocuous error = consequence. There is no 'evil secret police' or 'malign intent'.

The fact the he feels he needs to pursue this is really only going to keep him in problem zone.

What kind of closure can he expect? That police will change their operating procedures to make sure they 'write down stuff correctly'? Surely there's tons of data that's passed around in an investigation and this is liable to happen.

I guess this is newsworthy, but I think context is required here.