British police want to destroy a tell-all written by Princess Diana's former bodyguard. Apparently their legal "precedent" is the confiscation of profits from a book written by a serial killer. Somehow that gives them the right to confiscate and destroy all copies of a book that "may have revealed operational police details that could compromise future royal protection operations."
Or, they could just depose the royal family.
A bit late - "The book has already been serialized in a Sunday newspaper." So it's available in most libraries for anyone who wants to read it for police procedures. They just have, as is said in Old Blighty, their knickers in a twist.
Oh, and their precedent? The author admitted to copyright infringement... That's why he settled out of court, he was lucky to get off that easily.
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