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Not so random research question
Mar. 26th, 2010 01:32 pmOh help me, oh wonderful friendslist, I'm in a bit of a bind.
If a person were to be badly injured in the commission of a crime (say, for instance, joyriding in a stolen car...), would there be a police presence when the next of kin presents him/herself at the hospital? Obviously the injured party would be arrested if/when (s)he is in a fit state to be so. But in the meantime? How much of the nature of the crime would be related to the next of kin, if the joyrider was over the age of majority? Would this differ if the next of kin is not a blood relation?
Have things changed in the last twenty years? The incident I wish to write about is set in London in the early 1980s.
Thoughts? Facts? Ideas? Flames?
MTIA!
And yes, to those of you who think you know what I'm talking about. It's that fic.
If a person were to be badly injured in the commission of a crime (say, for instance, joyriding in a stolen car...), would there be a police presence when the next of kin presents him/herself at the hospital? Obviously the injured party would be arrested if/when (s)he is in a fit state to be so. But in the meantime? How much of the nature of the crime would be related to the next of kin, if the joyrider was over the age of majority? Would this differ if the next of kin is not a blood relation?
Have things changed in the last twenty years? The incident I wish to write about is set in London in the early 1980s.
Thoughts? Facts? Ideas? Flames?
MTIA!
And yes, to those of you who think you know what I'm talking about. It's that fic.
