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  A wise man once made the observation that all offences are historic as they occur in the past.
  
  How far into the past we wish to delve to address offences is a matter for both the law and our sensibilities to decide.
  
  I would suggest that this is exactly why we have things like The Limitiations Act 1980 for civil matters and S127 of The Magistrates Courts Act 1980, for minor offences and S1 of The Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 for traffic related offences.
  
  Unlike most other western nations we do not have any limitation on serious offences (those that require trial in The Crown Court) which has seen the UK judiciary and police tie themselves in knots and unsuccessful prosecutions over alleged sexual offences occuring decades ago and also why we waste acres of news print and internet column inches beating ourselves up over things like the slave trade, the crusades, concentration camps in the Boer War, or not dealing with Israels current/recent behaviour because of the holocaust and how British soldiers behaved in 1948 in Palestine.
  
  Little or nothing is solved in these "quests for truth" and the outcome often appears to be a fools errand, at huge expense and masses of unrealised expectations creating greater resentment etc.
  
  As for illegal migrants presenting themselves at our borders, we should process them, assess their claim for asylum and where unsuccessful return them to their country of origin (if safe) or the first EU country they entered. Frankly, if the press can establish that many so called Syrians are in fact Iranians/Iraquis/Afghans then surely the Border Force can do so too and take the appropriate actions.

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