Ed Beltrami said his concern was for the Love Island presenter's boyfriend, despite dropping his complaint against her.
The CPS was accused of wanting a show trial or for only prosecuting Flack because she was famous, but Mr Beltrami said"there aren't very many prosecutors who want a show trial"."Most just want to get on with their job," he said."Supposing we had made a decision not to proceed, which we could have done, and she goes back to live with the boyfriend and she loses her temper again on another occasion, hits him a bit harder with a lamp or with something else, and he dies.
"Domestic abuse is a separate category by itself - high risk, high risk of repetition, high risk of the offending escalating - so you have to look at that."Mr Beltrami admitted that whatever decision a prosecutor makes, one side is likely to be upset, but they have to use the law and some empathy to come to a decision as to whether a trial should go ahead or not.
And he said there is an issue with public perception of the CPS in that most people think it is part of the police and they are there to try to prosecute every case."Conviction is not necessarily the aim. You're not there to convict everyone. "What you're there to do is secure a just outcome in the case so it may be perfectly proper to bring a case, the evidence is there, you bring the case fairly, you disclose to the defence any material that undermines your case, they defend their case robustly, the case goes to a jury, and the jury acquit. That's justice."
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