Posts Tagged ‘jail’
Smellie Not Guilty Verdict Stinks
No! No! No! I do not believe it! This has to be one of the greatest travesties of justice ever inflicted on the British people. Sergeant Delroy Smellie who beat Nicola Fisher with the back of his hand and his baton at the G20 protest has been acquitted of assault. This is an outrage, a bad and sad day for Britain. The man is a bully, a brute and a liar. He is a violent criminal who should go to jail for at least two years.
Thug
We all saw it, in full colour on our television screens. The man is an unmitigated thug. There can be no doubt in the mind of any reasonable person. The video evidence is entirely conclusive. The excuses put forward in his defence are manifest nonsense. District Judge Daphne Wickham who made this disgraceful decision is either corrupt or dumb. Her ruling flies in the face of common sense, reason and fairness. Her comments as detailed here are absurd. We should not stand for this. There should be protest on the streets, questions in the House and an immediate appeal against the verdict.
Bad Apple
So, on the same day that guilty verdicts were delivered in the first trial without a jury for 350 years, we see the true colours of our increasingly cowardly and politically controlled judicial system. British justice is a laughing stock. It has no value any more, at all.
All the decent and honourable police officers out there must realise that this decision damages them beyond repair. Who will stand up for justice now? Who can we trust?
BBC Endangers Bulger Killer
Caught On Camera
Some may say that he deserves everything he gets but the BBC’s strenuous efforts to find identifiable photos of John Venables are to be deplored.
I say he deserves everything he gets within the law but this 27 year old man has now been recalled to prison and the BBC is going hell for leather to dig up every photo of him it can find. If he is identified by his cell mate or by others in jail with him I dread to think what the consequences will be. Whoever is behind this at the BBC is behaving quite improperly and they should be stopped. It seems to me that they too are risking jail for contempt of court.
Nothing can excuse what Venables and his partner in crime did and I am dubious about the justice of having released them from custody. What the BBC is doing though is just piling another wrong onto this sad history. This by an organisation that is usually ridiculously oversensitive to things. It seems that you can’t mention the brand name “Marmite” on the BBC but you can try to identify someone who the Court is trying to protect.
The Plague Is In Both Your Houses
I believe in the media. I think it’s a power for good. OK, so The Daily Telegraph has turned into The News Of The World and there is much else that is crass and false and wrong but it is the media that reveals truth and brings about change.
There can be no option now but jail for some MPs, dismissal for some, resignation for many and shame for most. Those dishonest and corrupt members of the House Of Lords deserve even worse. I also wrote much the same a few weeks ago about the police after the disgrace of the G20 murder and assaults – and what has happened? Nothing! For anyone else charges would already have been brought. Undoubtedly the violent policemen are free on bail and strings are being pulled to breaking point to keep them free.
Well let them break. We all saw it with our own eyes as we have seen the crimes of our politicians. We need no more prevarication.
This is the power of the media and I look forward to the day when we see these politicians, policemen and, yes, the bankers too, chained together as they are led into jail.
Peter Reynolds 