EYEVINE Simon Warr was accused of watching boys in the showers and touching one inappropriately after PE

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Simon Warr, who was a French and Latin teacher, was accused of watching boys in the showers and touching one inappropriately after a PE lesson three decades ago. The 64-year-old was left waiting for two years before his case went to trial and, when it did, the jury took less than 40 minutes to find in his favour. The charges related to two former pupils of St George's School and one from the Royal Hospital School in Ipswich, in the 1980s and 1990s. Despite Mr Warr having never taught PE or met the boys in question, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) pursued the case. Mr Warr, who has appeared on TV programmes including The One Show and Channel 4's That'll Teach 'Em, believes he was victim of a "politicised" prosecution service in the aftermath of the Jimmy Savile scandal, and that prosecutors should have investigated more before "destroying his life". Alison Saunders, who served as DPP for five years, has long been criticised for changing how police investigate sexual assaults, as well as Operation Yewtree and a £30million investigation into journalists that resulted in few convictions. It was announced on Monday she will be leaving when her contract runs out in October.

Mr Warr said: "By common consent, Ms Saunders has not exactly covered herself, or the CPS she leads, with glory. Too many things have gone disastrously wrong, too many times, and public confidence in our justice system is now at an all-time low. Too often it seemed that specific prosecutions - whether of investigative journalists, or of those accused of female genital mutilation or of media personalities accused of historical sexual offences - were more about getting a politically-correct result, rather than achieving justice. When these high profile cases started collapsing, the consequent damage to the CPS' reputation was inevitable. Ms Saunders' standing was similarly affected. "One of the most serious areas of concern during Ms Saunders's tenure has been 'targetdriven' practices, where CPS staff members are under constant pressure to achieve 'results' - that is, convictions in court. "Common sense dictates that any legal system which operates on the basis of hitting specific, pre-set targets for the number of convictions in court, is at risk of multiplying miscarriages of justice, as well as encouraging prosecutors to charge potential defendants in cases where there is little or no actual evidence. Of course, it's not only innocent people who have been dragged through the courts, their reputations indelibly tarnished, or the victims of wrongful convictions, who are suffering. Genuine victims of serious crimes are also being let down by a system on the brink of collapse."

PA Alison Saunders has long been criticised for changing how police investigate sexual assaults

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