 Thorpe was acquitted, and Cantley's summing up roundly condemned the prosecution witnesses and praised the defendants, while claiming not to express an opinion.At the 1979 "Secret Policeman's Ball", in aid of Amnesty International, the biased summing up speech by Mr Justice Cantley was parodied by Peter Cook.The sketch was written and delivered shortly after the trial and was, according to Freeman and Penrose, "actually not that different from the original."