Weird logic from the judge over the Mitchell libel case

I, personally, was surprised that Andrew Mitchell lost.  Jeremy Vine said, "Once you see a police officer jailed for pretending he was there and he heard it (the 10-15 seconds row), you then think the whole account must be untrue."  In total, three officers lost their jobs over the fabrications.

The judge said, that the Police were not capable of making up all that Mitchell said in the time that they had.  The BBC journalist reported that the judge thought, "They would have had to instantaneously come up with this conspiracy and they were simply not capable of doing that."  The officers did not have the wit or the intelligence to do so.  The officer was saved by a lack of wit.  The judge thought that the officers were not capable of making things look very bad for Mitchell by inventing the word, 'pleb'.  Therefore, he, Mitchell must have said it.

Giving his ruling, Mr Justice Mitting said: “For the reasons given I am satisfied at least on the balance of probabilities that Mr Mitchell did speak the words alleged or something so close to them as to amount to the same including the politically toxic word pleb.”
How absurd that Mitchell's career has been destroyed by some weird logic by a judge who admits that Mitchell might not even had said 'pleb' but only something close to pleb!

What an absurd ruling when the judge said the Police did not have the wit or the imagination to make up the so inoffensive word, 'pleb' and, therefore, Mitchell must have said it.  In addition, how could Mitchell have said this wicked, evil word, 'pleb' when three out of the four officers lost their jobs and one was even jailed for one year over the whole incident?  Mitchell could not have acted more honourably, afterwards, in quickly apologising for swearing but, not for a word he always maintained he did not say.  It seems inconceivable that, at the same time or, soon after when he realised how offensive the word was to the police, he would not also have apologised for saying 'pleb', if he had actually said it.

What is more, if the Sun maintains that Mitchell said the word, 'pleb',  you can be pretty sure that Mitchell did not say it!

Mitchell was winning in the court of public opinion, said Jonathan Aitkin.