What's worse: being dragged through the courts wrongly accused of murder or being dragged through the courts wrongly accused of child abuse? Stupid question? Hobson's choice?
Try suggesting that to former Premier League manager Dave Jones, who was falsely accused of abusing two teenagers as a care worker in a children's home after retiring as a footballer.
The former Southampton, Wolves and Cardiff boss, who has updated a book on his experiences, has told The Independent that it would have been preferable to have been fitted up for a murder he had not committed.
Once regarded as a bright, progressive young manager, Jones has not been offered a job in the top-flight of English football since the unfounded accusations went to court nearly 11 years ago.
The book's title, No Smoke, No Fire, is a reference to the judge's comments at the end of the trial, which collapsed when it became apparent that the two witnesses had concocted their stories in a greed-driven mission for compensation.
Despite the lies - and the judge's words - Jones's career was in shreds, his family placed under unimaginable stress. The verbal abuse has continued long after the trial.
And the police? Jones describes their investigation as "incompetent" but they were intent on ploughing on regardless, unquestioning of the motives of the complainants and ultimately bringing 13 charges. "I lost faith in the judicial system," Jones says.
Anyone who has been falsely accused of a crime as vile as this would surely sympathise.
As for the police, well, life just goes on.
