What is fascinatingly kind of glossed over in this otherwise-punchy decision - but much is certainly implied by the Crown entirely declining to cross-examine (because in the assessment of counsel appearing, it would not serve the public interest to do so) and recommending acquittal - is exactly how and why, under the described circumstances, either of the two hybrid charges proceeded to trial at all. Police and the Crown deserve at least as much raking over the coals here as the asshole neighbour himself, but… 🤔
