April 22 2008
A father of four taken to court and convicted and fined £210.00. He now has a criminal record to help him in future.

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. ________________________________________________________________________________
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.

And the government wonder why they can't do better in the polls.
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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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BBC Coventry 28 June 2008
Man says he was beaten by police
David Markham, whose two brothers are police officers, suffered bruising to his head, ribs
and back and currently has only 40% vision in his left eye.
He said he was attacked when he went outside to help after hearing a car crash and police sirens.

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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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.
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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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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 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".

Please read previous item re:
For running down and killing a woman, fined £700.
For illegal? fishing fined £283,607.
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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 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 and was not charged.
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