A friend of Kate Middleton was interviewed under caution by police after posting an online message saying she planned to shoot illegal immigrants.An earlier version of this 'Mail' story stated that she had accepted a caution, but that has now seemingly been corrected to an interview under caution.
Emma Sayle, 32, was formally questioned by police earlier this month after officers received a complaint about a message on her Facebook account but will face no further action.
And the 'offensive' statement?
Miss Sayle caused outrage when she posted a message on the social networking site that read: 'Just had a two-hour shooting lesson. She will now be using this skill on the top of East London high rises to help with the UK's illegal immigrant problem.'Bad taste? Sure. Funny? Not really. A crime? Hell, no...
So the next time I see a carefully-crafted PR whine from the police about how they are having their time wasted by members of the public, or a complaint on a police blog about the endless 'he said, she said' complaints emanating from chavland, I'm going to think back on the wasted man-hours spent on this sort of thing, and I suspect my sympathy is going to be tempered somewhat...
A Scotland Yard spokesman said today: 'Officers from Kensington and Chelsea investigated comments allegedly made on the Facebook website after a complaint was made at Chelsea police station on Wednesday December 1st. No arrests were made.Cops: If you don't want your time wasted in future, perhaps you need to consult with the CPS before, not after...
'On Monday December 20 a woman attended a West London police station by appointment in relation to the investigation and was interviewed under caution. Officers have now liaised with the Crown Prosecution Service who advised no further action.
19 comments:
There are three possible reasons for this:
1) An immigrant, who devoutly intends not to integrate into our society, objected to the very unlikely possibility of seeing small red dots of light on his burqa or whatever they wear;
2) A member of our own British society felt so angry that, even though they themselves don't live among immigrants they still can allow themselves warm fuzzy feelings on multi-culti heaven (though in someone else's neighbourhood, naturally) and told the local bobby of their outrage;
3) It was a quiet day over at Plod Central and, while surfing the net between not taking any notice of actual crimes, the ossifers came across this terrible online thought and immediately dropped all 'difficult' investigations and ran to arrest and grill the offender.
However it happened, it was all a bad decision.
In the meantime, i am utterly against any violence towards immigrants. Those who don't like it here should not be subject to any threats; they can so easily go back to their own country and find plenty of it among their own kind.
In other news, like the new look...
Yes it would be nice to see the back of (Add whichever group) Grievance Syndrome. But like you, I doubt we will, not until the laws changed and people grow up and start acting like adults, starting with the law enforcement agencies.
AHHH! Wot have you dun to the design?????
Looks good though.
Hoprfully Google can fix my "reply" problemd this year, as well.
What next? The outlawing of my society to cull bloggers using virulent green!
How much of police activity such as this could be decriminalised? OFT's 'World 3' is with us all over. The Fairies at the bottom of my garden are lobbying at this very moment to be treated as an ethnic minority, and have lodged a complaint about 4 by 4 mounted police harassing their unicorns. Our CJS, away with the fairies as it is, is giving them favourable consideration.
Don't laugh, but I heard on Deutschland Funk (Like our Radio 4, but better) today, that they have "legalised" Druids. So you never can tell.....
Oh no! You've finally caved in to political correctness and your 'blog has 'gone green'!
Apart from that, agreed. Loads of people say stuff like this, it can be mildly amusing or mildly disturbing, depending on circumstances, but that's the end of that.
Silly old you, JuliaM.
Don't you realise crimethink is the most serious offence of all?
Never mind investigating burglaries and robberies and things like that; we are dealing with a case of illegal opinion here.
I don't know whether it's the new template or the writing but something is bringing my Tourette's on again.
I saw this story in the Telegraph the other day, there's so much more to this young lady...
Love the new design JuliaM.
I was wandering earlier today why she accepted a caution for something that could not have been succesfully prosecuted for... So it seems she may not have accepted a caution at all.
It's incredible isn't it, that the police think they should be prosecuting members of the public for distasteful jokes on teh interwebs?
Anyways - Happy New year :D
I like the background - it reminds me of peaceful plantlife.
"However it happened, it was all a bad decision."
But I bet someone's got a tick in the old diversity box for it...
"...I doubt we will, not until the laws changed and people grow up and start acting like adults..."
I can't see much sign of that happening, frankly. It doesn't seem to be in anyone's interest any more.
Currently, squeaky wheels in our society are getting all the grease.
"Hoprfully Google can fix my "reply" problemd this year, as well."
You don't hope for much, do you? ;)
"Our CJS, away with the fairies as it is, is giving them favourable consideration."
Amazing how the CPS saved the day here, isn't it?
"...it can be mildly amusing or mildly disturbing, depending on circumstances, but that's the end of that."
Ah, if only.
"Don't you realise crimethink is the most serious offence of all?"
Wait until we get the Precrime Division!
"It's incredible isn't it, that the police think they should be prosecuting members of the public for distasteful jokes on teh interwebs?
Anyways - Happy New year :D"
And to you! :)
XX marvin said...
I was wandering earlier today why she accepted a caution for something that could not have been succesfully prosecuted for... So it seems she may not have accepted a caution at all.Xx
Don't bank on it. The courts were/are Do they stll "bind over"?) always jampacked with people "accepting" to be "bound over" even when they have not done a bloody THING wrong.
Example, guy at taxi rank after the clubs close, but on way home from work and is a sober as a....(Nearly said Judge, but you know what I mean) gets punched in nose. Does not even have time to get up off the floor before the police arrive. Both are arrested and up in court. BOTH get "bound over". To which both have to agree.
So why does the innocent party agree?
THAT is what I mean about your comment re Mideltons girlfriend. Some people are just too boearse lazy to even defend thewmselves against spurious charges.
Bonearse lazy. Hmm In 2011 I MAY improve my typing.
"Cops: If you don't want your time wasted in future, perhaps you need to consult with the CPS before, not after..."
Fair comment, but unfortunately, the CPS only rule on a case's chances in Court when they are shown the evidence relating to it, and since they don't actually gather evidence themselves, someone else has to. Of course, in some cases, it should be obvious to everyone when it's a non-starter, ie not actually an offence at all.
Blame the McPherson report and Nulabor for brainwashing (or blackmailing) the Police into treating any sort of race crime* as second only to murder.
I can say that once the crime had been reported, the higher ranks of the Police would have made sure that it was investigated to the full extent.
I ran a low key Police operation and the Chief would not let me call it Operation Bongo, (because it sounds racist??)
*if the victim is white or Christian it is not race crime and the rules do not apply.
"Of course, in some cases, it should be obvious to everyone when it's a non-starter, ie not actually an offence at all."
Yo normal people, yes. But as Blueknight points out, MacPherson changed all that forever.
"...once the crime had been reported, the higher ranks of the Police would have made sure that it was investigated to the full extent."
Sadly, I can't see anything changing, despite our putative change of government.
@Furor Teutonicus: So why does the innocent party agree?
ISTR either "Gadget" or "Nightjack" explaining how to "work the system". I'd guess that the offender knew better than the assaulted party and so he complained that he had been assaulted first and was merely retaliating. It then comes down to one person's word against another's. Plod therefore nick both of them - two offences, two "results", boxes ticked and off for donuts...
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