A legal loophole meant the charge should not have applied to those drink-drivers who failed to provide a specimen.

This case presents a serious legal loophole and could open the floodgates for similar cases.

It will say that a significant proportion of these deaths could have been avoided, had it not been for health service failures or legal loopholes.

But corruption, legal loopholes, delays, and stretched resources combine to make the quest to jail the group far from straightforward.

His government has been frequently charged with dictatorship, demagogy, corruption, conflicts of interest, human rights offences, acting undiplomatically, the use of legal loopholes and hostility towards a free press.