OT Sort of, it is about speeding

I was in the US when the copper who led the murder inquiry (I think) was
interviewed in the states. The said something along the lines of:

Venables was just an impressionable boy a 'patsy' of Thompson, who was
pure evil. He went on to say he had never seen that in a child
(Thompson) so young.

 

A very good friend of mine (he was with me on a TOG trip to the Bol
d'Or) gave a German friends name for a speeding offence when his bike
had been photographed with a mobile camera set up in Kent. His bike, his
leathers etc.

Plod/CPS went apeshit. Threats of long terms in jail ,corrupting justice
etc.

The problem was it was his bike, it was his leathers, it was his German
girlfriend riding it. She had borrowed it to visit her parents in
Germany. Properly insured etc.

Took a lot of sorting out.

 

I'm assuming this has already been done - it is genuinely impossible
to identify the driver.

Waste of money IMHO. I really can't imagine what advice a lawyer could
give you other than one of you has to cough up to it.

 

On 02/03/2010 18:18, Ben wrote:
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A total of 1,462,235 speeding fines were handed out to drivers in
England and Wales in 2007 [1].

That is an awful lot of law breakers.


[1]
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/me...le-under-labour-to-earn-250000-every-day.html

 

Nah, that number says nothing about the number of law breakers - merely
about the ones who get caught.

 

I resent the very suggestion that I'd ever hang around a Chippy

 

Back where he belongs.

 

Heh we had a little joint venture in RoI and had a little co-op deal. "One
of us" passed a gatso in Somerset at eeek speed in a hire car. Plod doesn't
usually bother sending tickets to NI but in this case they requested my
attendance at County Court. I asked for the pictures and after checking
referred them to a Dublin address. They went on to check with Avis who was
insured. We had covered it on our company group policy, "Any driver with
Director permission". So they went through the considerable hassle of
asking PSNI to visit me in Holywood. PSNI were not amused to discover I'd
already supplied the RoI address of the "driver" and assured me they would
flame the Somerset mob.

But they never did bother matey in the South.

 

Perhaps he just didn't accept being done for something he didn't feel
is any sort of wrong...

 

What a silly comment. Was anyone hurt or inconvenienced in the crime? bit
of a litmus test that.

I've also spoken to the victims mum Denise which somewhat coloured my
attitude to the perpetrators treatment and release.

 

Nor does it present any information as to why they were breaking the law.

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We don't know what the crime that sent him back inside was, do we?

To quote the BBC news article "The ministry did not detail the nature
of Venables' breach of his licence."

 

<sigh>
Who cares?
He is back where an awful lot of people think he belongs

One can't ever imagine how Mrs Bulger felt about the original crime, no
point in trying, but I do know how much worse it made it for her when the
fucks were released again.

 

I'm sure she was the very model of impartiality.

 

Rather depends on the black and white issues of where you consider Justice
should incorporate revenge and/or things which help the Victims' closure.
Or indeed that the consequences for the Perps should be more influenced by
the wishes of the Victims, if they exist. And whether Perps should be
subject to a subset of the HRA 1998.

But FFS lets not ever discuss all that here again ;o)

 

We are talking about sentencing not the Justice process of investigation and
conviction.

Sentencing is already "not blind" btw

 

Quite. You're wrong on every single point, no question about it.

 

Only in the opinion of a wooly old leftie like you.
Not that I'm particularly comfortable sharing the opinions of the great
unwashed masses, in principal, you understand.

What either of us think will be irrelevant soon anyway. The Chinese have it
down pat. Though I'd rather they resisted getting wooly about keeping
atheism imposed from the centre. Hopefully just a blip around the Olympics.

 

The utter cunts never (or rarely) apologise, all you get is a sullen
missive saying no further action, with veiled threatening undertones.
Mind you, I've had a magistrate apologise to me in court for the plod
wasting my time over a stop.

 

Otoh, hand-written cover notes were perfectly routine in my police
jurisdiction.
What a handy thing that was.