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Shabadine Peart V The Queen

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In Shabadine Peart v The Queen (Jamaica) [2006] UKPC 5, it is mentioned that: -
Lord Devlin in this Criminal Prosecution in England in 1960 gave the reason underlying the prohibition in Rule III (b) of the Judges’ Rules of questioning after a suspect has been charged:
"The inquiry that is conducted by the police divides itself naturally into two parts which are recognizably different, although it is difficult to say at just what point the first part ends and the second begins. In the earlier part the object of the inquiry is to ascertain the guilty party and in the latter part it is to prove the case against him. The distinction between the two periods is in effect the distinction between suspicion and accusation. The moment at which the suspect becomes the accused marks the change."
Once the suspect has been charged, the efforts of the police interviewers are directed to establishing his guilt. He is under a greater disadvantage at that stage, in that he may feel under greater compulsion to answer questions, notwithstanding a caution. These factors may tend to produce a feeling of pressure upon the accused to speak where he might otherwise have remained silent and to result in unreliable statements from him when seeking to tell exculpatory lies to get himself out of trouble. The most cogent expression of this risk is contained in the dissenting judgment of Pigot CB in R v Johnston (1864) 15 ICLR 60 at 121:
"The danger is that an innocent person, suddenly arrested, and

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