Someone tried to kill steven hawking

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In England the papers can just publish who's on trial, and ruin someone's life without needing a conviction. Disgusting. The public does not need to know the names of people standing accused of crimes.

It was the general idea to prevent something like that. Although the precedence for the law was rather dubious. It was about princess Stefanie of Monaco and her rowdy husband back then. I don't remember the exact circumstances, but some incidence made it into general legislation.

There are exemptions, obviously, since the infamous Josef Fritzl made it into the press by full name before being convicted. But there have been some lawsuits, obviously, since later on he was only called Josef F.