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His crime
Not closing his wheelie bin properly
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April 25 2008
Eighteen year old young man with a mental age of five years arrested
for a racist attack
What happened
He had a falling out with a girl at the same school as him and pushed
her away saying "Go away".
The girl then told her teacher
Around a week later Jamie (the boy) was charged with racism and
assault
This against a lad who cannot tie his own shoelaces, needs help on
the lavatory and musn't be left alone in the house.
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April 25 2008, Hull city centre
Mother just picked up four year old daughter from nursery.
Daughter says she is hungry, mother buys her a sausage roll
On breaking it to give daughter a piece she inadvertently dropped
a piece on the pavement which pidgeons quickly ate.
But two officials from the "environment crime unit" (crime unit?)
threatened her with arrest and started reading her her rights in
the street, eventually fining her £75.00
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Earlier in April
Kate Hudson from Wolverhampton had her case of throwing an
apple core out of her car window thrown out of court
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July 22.2007
Mr de Menezes, 27, a Brazilian electrician, was followed onto
a Tube train at Stockwell by firearms officers.
Suspecting that he was a suicide bomber, the officers shot him
eight times (EIGHT TIMES) in the head.
The trial, of the police was not focused on the shooting of
Mr de Menezes but on the chain of events which led to his
being killed.
The charge against the Met falls under the public safety clauses
of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Not much 'elf and safety there was there, especially for
Mr de Menezes.
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Doherty freed early
Pete Doherty released after only serving 29 days of a 98 day
sentence, to ease jail overcrowding.
Presumably to make room for the ones reported here.
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Cannabis
Gordon Brown announces cannabis to be re-classified as
Class B drug.
Police say they will still treat it as a Class C drug
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Walsall
Headmaster now has a criminal record and may not be able
to teach children.
His crime
Forgetting to renew his fishing licence. He was fined £50 plus £70
costs
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May 10 2008
TV actor Philip Glenister's driver stopped for driving 5mph over limit.
Mr Glenister told police who he was and the policeman said
"I'm terribly sorry about this sir, I'll let you off this time.
Meanwhile Sidney Duffy drove 5mph above speed limit to get off the
road as his wife was having an epileptic fit
Mr Duffy is being taken to court and given a criminal record.
It would seem that some really are born more equal than others
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May 10 2008 Apples cores again?
11.45 am, Kirth Hurst arrested by five (FIVE) policemen and had
DNA and fingerprints taken and held in cell for 18 hours
His crime
Allegedly dropping an apple core on the pavement
Another law abiding man who has a criminal record to help him on his
way in life
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May 14 2008 wheelie bins (again)
A 95 year old desert war veteran, almost blind
Norwich City Council refused to empty his bin.
His crime
Putting an empty ketchup bottle in the wrong bin
Council on being asked why replied, "Rules are rules and must be
obeyed
(Isn't British justice wonderful)
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A Filipino man, whose wife was killed by a blunder on the NHS lost
his fight to stay in Britain
He could stay before as his wife was a nurse here.
Now his wife is dead.
The Home Office has ruled (there's those rules that must be obeyed
again) that as his visa was linked to his wife's job he has to leave
(remember the hospital where she worked killed her).
Makes you proud to be British, don't it.
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Charities are asking for donations to help wounded soldiers.
They need help to provide recreational facilities at hospitals
and nursing homes.
Innmates in prisons have Sky TV, swimming pools, gyms and
table tennis
It would seem that criminals are deserving of more respect
than soldiers.
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Plymouth Tory Council.
Families face being fined £100 and a criminal record if they
put the wrong rubbish in the wrong bin, put them out too
soon or put the bins in the wrong place
They also want to know everyone who lives there, including
details of medical conditions and if there are any babies
living there.
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New laws could see wolf-whistling builders placed on the sex
offenders register.
The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill will create a new offence of
"communicating indecently", punishable by up to 10 years
in jail...Here we go again.
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Daily Mail June 23 2008
MP's may receive £150 a day for turning up.
But isn't that what they are already paid for.
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Anti-Terror laws..Daily Mail June 23 2008
A family in Poole, Dorset, under surveillance for 3 weeks over
suspicions they were living outside the catchment area of their
child's school.
Last year around 3,000 people have had their phone and email
records examined by councils.
To check among other things, dog fouling, and littering.
Anti-Terror??
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Daily Mail June 23/24 2008
Abu Qatada (said to be Bin Laden's ambassador in Europe) will get
£150 per week of taxpayer's cash after being released from prison
last week. His wife has been claiming £45,000 a year in child
benefit, income support, housing benefit and council tax credit.
Meanwhile Raymond Jarvis, who suffers with dementia had to sell
his home to pay for his care home fees of £3,300 a month.
...Isn't life wonderful
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Daily Mail June 25 2008
Frank McCourt had young hooligans hurling rocks at his house.
He tried to phone the police and was put on hold for 45min, so he
made a citizens arrest.
Mr McCourt was arrested that day for kidnapping.
He spent six weeks on bail and was charged with assault.
The case hung over him for two and a half months before it was
dropped.
Makes you wonder whose side the police are on.
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Daily Mail 27th November 2008
Boss who marched thieving employee to police station is charged
with false imprisonment...
Thief gets off with a caution.
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Croydon Today.co.uk 07/12/08
Mum told daughter could be taken into care if she doesn't take away
her toys.
A mother is distraught after being told her disabled daughter could be
taken into care if she does not take away her collection of toys.
Maureen, of Queens Road, Thornton Heath, said: "Michelle is so
happy at
home. She wouldn't survive in care.
"She's 38 now and I've been looking after her since she was born.
"I know what to do. I'm her mother."
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Daily Mail, Hartlepool..05/12/08
Lorry driver charged with arson - for holding a bonfire on Bonfire Night.
Brett Duxfield was arrested by 14 police officers held in a cell for
ten hours, and had his fingerprints and DNA taken.
The bonfire had been lit here every year since 1994.
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In May 2008, 18 year-old Ben Smith was stopped in a routine check.
The police officer noticed an English flag on the parcel shelf and
ordered him to remove it because it was "racist towards immigrants."
One of the first things foreign powers usually do when they invade
a country is to ban its national symbols.
(Also no British flags on car number plates by order..Gordon Brown)
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BBC 10 July 2008
Mum's police check for school run
Jayne Jones, of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, used to travel with her
son Alex, 14, in the council-provided taxi because he is severely
epileptic.
But Merthyr Tydfil council has told her this must stop until she has
undergone a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.
His mother needs a criminal record check?.
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He said one officer ran over to him, kicked him in the side, knocked him to the floor and punched him.
Another then jumped on his back, handcuffed him and punched him all over his body.
Mr Markham said he told the officers the police were on their way and they told him: "We are the police."
"I said, 'The police don't do this'.
"I did not play them up. I did not do anything. I had no reason to play them up".
"I just came outside... told them my name and they gave me a kicking."
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St Mary's airport on the Isles of Scilly have an advertisement for an air traffic controller
The post needs 20/20 vision, yet at the bottom of the advert is the note:-
If you require this document in larger text or in braille or in easy read/audio format please contact us
It would certainly be a world first to have a blind air traffic controller
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Daily Mail..July 25 2008
Ceredigion Council, Aberystwyth Painter and decorator fined for smoking in his van.
Gordon Williams on his way home after work was stopped by council official (who else?)
He was told his van was his place of work and smoking was forbidden. He replied that it was not his place of work,
he decorated houses not vans.
Nevertheless he was fined £30
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Daily Mail 10th July 2008
Simon Dale ran down Marged Griffiths in his car and drove off. Mrs Griffiths died hours later in hospital.
Dale was arrested the next day and charged.
Magistrates let him off with a £700 fine and eight points on his licence
Not closing your wheelie bin £210 - for killing someone £700
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Daily Telegraph 3rd Aug: 2008
Judge Neil McKittric imposed crippling fines totalling £42,500, with costs of £27,646, and also agreed to
confiscations of their assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act, to a total of £213,461, on three Thames Estuary
fishermen.
Unless this is paid within months they face two years in prison. See "Thames fishermen get gangsters' sentences".
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In contrast, at Ipswich crown court, in July 2008, the same judge.."gave a paedophile 14 weeks suspended sentence
for the 'revolting crime' because he was a man of good character".
How strange that Judge should seemingly favour paedophiles.
Please read previous item re:
For running down and killing a woman, fined £700.
For illegal? fishing fined £283,607.
For being a paedophile 14 weeks suspended sentence.
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Driver in court for speeding to maternity ward
A father was taken to court after being caught speeding at 37mph while his wife was in labour in the passenger seat.
Martin Walton, 36, appeared in court after being detected by a speed camera in a 30mph zone as he drove his wife
Wendy to hospital on an empty carriageway at 5am on Aug 22 last year.
The IT programme manager, from Ringwood, Hants, said: "Someone who has drunk 25 pints and sticks at 29mph won't
get caught but someone in my circumstances is dragged through the courts.
"My wife had to come and give evidence, I spent over £300 on a solicitor and had two days off work.
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Lydia Playfoot, 16, lost her high court battle to be allowed to wear, at school, a Christian chastity ring, which she
viewed as emblematic of her faith, and her commitment – as a Christian – to refrain from pre-marital sex.
Recently Sarika Singh, 14, won her high court case to be allowed to wear a silver bangle, at her school, as part of
her Sikh faith.
Again it seems that some are more equal than others
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Daily Mail, 14th August 2008
Former police Inspector Paul Lawson, 52, had intended to make a citizen's arrest, but backed down when the youths
threatened to kill him and smash up his vehicle.
He reported the incident to two police officers on patrol, but they refused to take action.
One of the gang later claimed to have been assaulted by Mr Lawson, however and Northumbria Police did intervene.
He was asked to go to the police station in Morpeth - and, to his intense surprise, arrested on the spot.
Mr Lawson was interviewed, held in a cell for two hours, and had his fingerprints and a DNA sample taken before he was
released on bail.
He then had to wait several weeks before a decision was made to take no further action against him.
The youths who had threatened him have never been prosecuted.
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Daily Mail, 21 July 2008
David Green, 64, and his neighbours had been plagued by the youths from a nearby comprehensive school for months.
But when Mr Green left his London flat to take photographs of the gang, who were aged around 17, he said one
threatened to kill him while another called the police on his mobile.
And he claimed that a Police Community Support Officer sent to the scene promptly issued a warning that taking
pictures of youths without permission was illegal, and could lead to a charge of assault.
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BBC 4th Sept: 2008
The Metro Hotel, Woking
Corp Stringer, of 23 Air Assault Support Regiment, the Royal Logistic Corps, was refused a room at the hotel
under its "no military personnel" policy.
The hotel receptionist asked to see his identification and when he showed his military ID card,
she told him military personnel were not welcome.
Does that also apply to Officers.
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Daily Mail 27 Sept: 2008
Grandmother is killed by police's 100mph boy racer - delivering a birthday card to his sister
He then treated a relative to a high-speed 'black run' tour of the local area.
After dropping the relative back at their home, the officer sped back to his police station.
It was then, while doing nearly twice the speed limit with his blue lights flashing, that he ran over and killed
married mother-of-three Sandy Simpson, 61.
The Home Office said 126 people were killed in accidents involving police vehicles in England and Wales between 2000
and 2004.
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Daily Mail Oct: 17 2008
Mrs Saiedi lives in a £1.2m home and receives £170,000 a year in benefits
Meanwhile, Titanic survivor Mellvina Dean (96) has to sell her Titanic souvenirs to try to pay for nursing home fees
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Daily Mail Oct: 10 2008
Peter Drew (professional gardener) in his van stopped by police.
When they searched his van they found a scythe and an axe and despite telling them he needed them for his work
he was arrested on suspicion of having offensive weapons. He endured 8 months of court appearances before
being told the CPS had dropped the case.
Makes you despair doesn't it.
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Stockport, Greater Manchester
"A mother ended up getting arrested when her six-year-old daughter stuck a golliwog doll on their windowsill.
English 39-year-old Amanda Schofield was quizzed on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence.
Schofield, had removed the toy from the window as she put little Eboni to bed - yet was still visited by cops
the same night. She was asked to attend a police station but was not charged.
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Daily Mail, 09/12/08
Coach driver fined for stopping in Oxford Street for disabled passenger.
He was helping a severely handicapped man and his carer use the
wheelchair lift when a warden approached and issued him with a fixed
penalty notice for contravening the 'no loading' restrictions.
The incident happened, strangely enough, in 'Disability Awareness
Week'.
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Dorothy Glenn, a 41 year-old mother of three from Southshields in Tyneside,
gets into the spirit of Christmas by decorating her home with illuminations,
including a giant tree and a 4ft Father Christmas.
But it appears that this seemingly innocent celebration of the season of good will to all men did not go down well
with her local housing association. A housing officer visited Mrs. Glenn, whose neighbours are Bengali and Chinese,
and told her to take down her decorations as it might offend her neighbours, claiming that they were “offensive to the
community.”
“I told him that I am far from a racist and that I wouldn’t be taking the lights down.
“I’m shocked, annoyed and upset. At the end of the day, it’s the festive season and they’re staying”, said Mrs. Glenn.
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It’s not only Christmas decorations that have fallen foul of the Thought Police. The vile, odious white supremacists
that are the Salvation Army have also been taken to task for their pro-Christmas activities.
The sight of the Sally Army rattling their collection tins, is a traditional part of the British Christmas.
But it seems that the subversive act of tin-rattling does not quite fit in with our modern, vibrant society.
Guidelines for branches organising public collections have banned the rattling of collection tins as it is seen as
“intimidating” and may also “cause offence to other religions.”
Councils and the police have the powers to enforce the rule about rattling and can prosecute or ban offenders. One
Salvation Army collector said: “I’ve been doing this for more than 40 years and I fail to see how rattling a tin could
cause offence.”
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