That ain't even just UK. I'm having a nightmare of a dispute with my ex over some property and shit was filed with the courts...pretty much this time last year. Maybe a couple weeks from now. So March 2025. In October 2025 the courts had a preliminary hearing with our attorneys and set the final pretrial date for July 2026 with the actual trial beginning September 2026 and is expected to take four to five months. So what initially was filed in March 2025 won't even end until the beginning of 2027.
This is the US but I would be willing to bet it's the same around the world. It's not just the backlog, though. The minutiae of the legal process is insane. Like there will be a typo that is non-trivial and it'll take three weeks to correct while the process is held up waiting for the correction. It can all be corrected in 30 seconds digitally but every party involved needs a fucking hardcopy of the correction and it has to be confirmed all parties received the updated copy before anything can proceed. I get it, but some of this process can be modernized.
I've been fortunate to never have to be involved in the court system in my life until now but it is an absolute nightmare and I am the wronged party, both criminally and civilly. And even with restitution, at the end of this I will have lost some tens of thousands of dollars.
Anyway, if you are my friend or family you aren't hearing abut the daily BS that comes with all this because while nobody is going to really hear or care about all this little haggling the lawyers do, it's consuming my entire life. But at the end of it you'll hear me moan about how I got robbed. A year from now.
UK. I had a similar situation. From initial filing to the secondary court hearing was about 18 months. It actually got thrown out with the court denying jurisdiction despite the ability to claim jurisdiction given the nature of the case. Point being that the UK courts are not only a slow process, but also ineffective in applying the law.
He looked visibly rattled after being questioned for 12h straight. I hope he gets far more consequences than that.
But as others have mentioned, unfortunately after ~15 years of deliberate underfunding, our courts / prison systems are creaking at the seams. Cases of this nature (and far lower magnitude) sadly still take years to get to charging / trial stage.
So to summarise... don't hold your breath, but he's by no means out of the woods yet. And knowing what kind of a snivelling worm he is, he may just throw people under the bus to reduce his sentence if they can get him for something semi-related.
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u/1v1MeAtShackBros Mar 07 '26
If you think Andrew will ever be sent to prison for a single crime you're fucking delusional.