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Australian DJsThe Australian DJs who designed a hoax telephone call towards the hospital dealing with the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge won't face charges the Crown Prosecution Service stated today.
Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse in the King Edward VII hospital working in London who clarified the phone call, required her very own existence following a furore within the on-air prank in December.
Prosecutors considered getting a situation for wrongful death over her dying, but came to the conclusion that there is insufficient evidence.
They found there is some evidence to warrant further analysis of possible offences underneath the Data Protection Act 1998, the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and also the Communications Act 2003.
However, they ruled this wasn't needed because any potential prosecution wouldn't be within the public interest.
Malcolm McHaffie, the CPS’s deputy mind of special crime, stated: "It's not easy to extradite people from Australia according from the potential offences under consideration. However misguided, the phone call was should have been a harmless prank.
"During the course of the call, private information about the duchess's health was given, in good faith, to Ms. Greig and Mr. Christian and the call was later played on a radio station in Australia.
"Subsequently, Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse at the hospital who had initially taken the call but who had not herself passed on the information, tragically took her own life."
He added: "Having carefully reviewed the evidence currently available we have concluded that there is no evidence to support a charge of manslaughter and that although there is some evidence to warrant further investigation of offences under the Data Protection Act 1998, the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and the Communications Act 2003, no further investigation is required because any potential prosecution would not be in the public interest."
One of the issues taken into account, the CPS stated, was the truth that it wouldn't easy to extradite radio stations presenters from Australia according from the potential communication offences.
"However misguided," McHaffie added, "the telephone call was intended as a harmless prank. The consequences in this case were very sad. We send our sincere condolences to Jacintha Saldanha's family."
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