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because they would not have been prosecuted if they had not lied to police. 请帮忙解释这句话的意思.
Two Liverpool businessmen who bought the black-market cockles from Lin, David Anthony Eden, 63, and his son David Anthony Eden Jnr, 25, were cleared of breaching immigration law. But Mr Justice Henriques said that the two must pay their own defence costs - estimated at several hundred thousand pounds - because they would not have been prosecuted if they had not lied to police.
Two Liverpool businessmen who bought the black-market cockles from Lin, David Anthony Eden, 63, and his son David Anthony Eden Jnr, 25, were cleared of breaching immigration law. But Mr Justice Henriques said that the two must pay their own defence costs - estimated at several hundred thousand pounds - because they would not have been prosecuted if they had not lied to police.
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