Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Should've Gone To Specsavers...

Leonard Hankey, 40, was accused of waving a machete in a street in Torrington, North Devon...
Oh noes! Knife crime! Throw the book at h...

Oh. Wait.
...after the frame of the broken toy was mistaken for a deadly weapon.
Errrr, surely, if you're going to charge someone for having a machete in the street, you need....well, a machete?

Not a bit of broken scooter?
A judge imposed a conditional discharge after hearing that Mr Hankey would probably have escaped with a caution if the true facts had been known from the outset.
So, who was concealing these 'true facts', your honour? Shouldn't you be wondering about that?
Recorder Mr Kevin de Haan, QC, said he looked on it as "an offence committed impulsively", adding: "With clearer judgment you probably wouldn't have done that; you would have contacted the police or gone to see the parents."
I don't think contacting the police would have helped, if they can't tell the difference between a bit of scooter and a machete, do you?

And what of the CPS? Aren't the police always telling us they are reluctant to take on anything that isn't a slam-dunk case?
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5 comments:

  1. Tattyfalarr11 January 2012 at 10:41

    "you would have contacted the police or gone to see the parents."

    ...or just ensured someone bigger beat the sh*t out of the bully, down a back alley, away from CCTV, in the dark, whilst wearing dark clothing and a balaclava.

    Honestly, why do people have to make things so complicated ? ;)

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  2. A salt and battered11 January 2012 at 14:10

    It worked out pretty well for Mr Hankey, that police did not mistake the scooter part for a table leg.

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  3. Anonymous11 January 2012 at 14:30

    His real crime was doing a job the police reserve for themselves, and then can't be bothered to get of their arses and do!

    So waving around a broken toy and shouting at the bully who broke it is, even after the true facts were dragged out of the police and cps, still seen as warranting a conditional discharge, is it?

    No wonder no one trust the progressive idiots and thugs in the police any more.

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  4. Anonymous12 January 2012 at 06:47

    @ tiffany

    "By the way, how could we communicate?"

    It's not rocket science, tiffany. Just click on the orange bar.

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  5. JuliaM13 January 2012 at 05:31

    "...or just ensured someone bigger beat the sh*t out of the bully, down a back alley, away from CCTV, in the dark, whilst wearing dark clothing and a balaclava."

    I think it might soon come to that! There's a real risk of increasing vigilante 'justice'.

    "It's not rocket science, tiffany."

    Tiffany's gone bye-byes, adorable little spammer that she is...

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