To recap, a vulnerable homeless woman called Melita Jo, with probable mental health issues, lives for several months in the graveyard of St Mary's Church, the Christian focal point of the community in Walthamstow which likes to call itself 'The Village'.

Over many months, these problems are not resolved by the Church, the NHS or Social Services. She is beaten to death in September 2008.

The Village, the Great and Good wring their hands, hold a Vigil. The police swing into action. Various people have their collars felt, including a similarly marginal homeless character, Jonathan Linzell. Some might describe him as a convenient 'usual suspect' pulled in to assuage genuine public anger. Others wonder what the evidence against him amounts to.

We will now possibly never know what evidence the police had, or if the police had any case worthy of presenting in court, because the Crown Prosecution Service have dropped the case before a jury was even sworn in . The accused man has walked free. Assuming him to be innocent, as one must, there must therefore be some other person or people currently at large in our community capable of committing such an act of violence on a vulnerable woman sleeping in a graveyard. Six people have been bailed to report to the police in February.

Melita Jo's body was shipped to the Philippines for burial.