Double Jeopardy and the Options for Another Trial

By Andrew Norfolk
The Times
August 25, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/double-jeopardy-and-the-options-for-another-trial-xzdzx8pdm

Judge Colin Burn presided over Paul Sheppard’s trial

North Yorkshire police has previously said that its file on Paul Sheppard is closed.

This week, however, The Times informed the force of two former Ampleforth pupils to whom the police had not previously spoken. Each has described incidents involving the teacher in 1989 that this newspaper considers merit further investigation.

Were police to reopen the case, and should they subsequently decide to charge Dr Sheppard with new offences, the Crown Prosecution Service would need to consider the status of the charges that the Canadian was due to face at last year’s trial.

The teacher should have faced seven charges…