Why Blur The Faces?

[cassa333]

This hit and run video of the incident in Tescos that seriously injured a woman and did a great deal of damage is on the BBC website
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46692710

They have ground the car but not the people.

WHY have they blurred the faces of the driver and passengers?

Surely if we or more to the point people from the area, can identify them they will be caught sooner.

[New Judge]

A number of reasons could be why they are blurred. One could be that the issue of identification may be one the police have to prove. If they have a witness who saw the incident and the police ask that witness to identify the miscreant, the fairness of that process may be jeopardised if the witness has seen a photograph in the press that suggests that the person in the photo was the one who committed the crime.

[cassa333]

Ok thanks NJ.

So how do photo fits work? Or when they show cctv and ask the public for help in identifying a criminal?

[Ken4155]

But when the incident was shared on social media, the faces weren't blanked out, were they? Sure i remember seeing their faces when my daughter showed me this video on Boxing Day.

[youngmafbog]

Got to protect the criminals these days cassa, unless they are not part of the great order then you can tip off the BBC and you can all watch their drum being turned over by Plod live on air.

[Peter Pedant]

// So how do photo fits work?//

yeah I wondered about this essential nonsense
you show a photie in order to get someone to help ( identify the subject)
and the pixilate it to preserve anonymity

I mean the army, SAS and armed police are a bit shy ( and get pixilated ) but suspects ......