Oh. Well, it was.
A magistrate defending his family against an armed gang who stormed his home ended up being arrested himself – and accused of a racially aggravated assault.
Police detained Nigel Stringer for three hours and he remains under investigation while the gang – believed to have been armed with a gun, knives, metal bars and a crossbow – were allowed to leave.Is there a bit of schadenfreude that this is a member of the criminal justice system suddenly realising what all of us who aren't have known for years?
Reader, I'd be lying if I said there wasn't...
The 67-year-old, who has been a magistrate for 26 years, is now standing down to pursue a private prosecution against the men.But you know what? I totally admire him for this. Not content with just whinging, he's going to fight.
Mr Stringer says justice 'runs in my blood', with his grandfather and parents having careers in policing.
But he said: 'They would all turn in their graves to know that modern political correctness caused my son and I to be taken from our home for defending our family.
'In detaining us the police left my wife and daughters unprotected with some of the gang still in and around our garden.'Of course they did.
And I'm wondering now if the cops that arrested him had ever come up against him in court, and lost. After all, it seems to be a pretty common thing for uniformed thugs to get the idea they can do as they please.
Yesterday Mr Stringer said: 'This should be a warning to all homeowners that not only are the police unable to protect us, they will actually arrest innocent homeowners who protect themselves, even against an armed and dangerous gang.'Thanks for the warning, but we didn't really need it. We've seen it happen too many times.
A Norfolk Police spokesman said a file has been submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service and Mr Stringer 'remains under investigation'.I hope there's a few sweaty collars in the CPS & ACPO ranks right now, and not just because of the unseasonable temperatures...
Can this account be true, WC Jaded?
ReplyDeleteYou keep telling us how wrong it is to regard you as soft dogshit... when polls you commission with our money only confirm your intelligence, skill and popularity.
This is an interesting one. Let's see what happens here before you experts rush to judgment. I know nothing more about the case than any of you but to arrest a magistrate at his home address takes some doing. I'm sure he would have mentioned his occupation more than once.
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Pray tell Melvin . You clearly witnessed this incident...like every other incident where we mess up.
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Filth doing what filth do so well -- screwing up everything they come near. They are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
ReplyDeleteNever mind, pc jaded - the public-funded pension is safe - for now.
I suspect the moment the phrase 'racially motivated abuse' fell, the police had no choice but to arrest the JP or find themselves on the wrong end of a disciplinary hearing and newspapers screaming 'Magistrate uses N-word towards peaceful protestors, police do nothing'.
ReplyDeleteI dare say the Chief Constable found himself blackballed at the Wensum Golf Club, drummed out of The Lodge in disgrace with his trouser leg ceremoniously rolled back down.
The Daily Brexiteur, Capnophobe and Homeopath was kind enough to inform us that not only is the man a long sitting *Norfolk* magistrate but that he lives in a £2millon pad in the right part of Norwich and has some serious money. Here in Norfolk -maybe things are different in England- that means he has some serious 'clout' and 'pull'. You can bet that MPs,Crown Court Judges and Senior Police Officers are regulars at his soirées and fondue evenings.
Things, as Jaded said, could get interesting.
He probably described the invading scum as " those dammned, knife-wielding backguards" when he triple-nined the cops. Clearly a hate crime.
ReplyDeleteThat's blackguards of course.
ReplyDelete"This is an interesting one. Let's see what happens here before you experts rush to judgment."
ReplyDeleteWell, that would be doing this 'blogging' stuff all wrong, wouldn't it?!
"...to arrest a magistrate at his home address takes some doing. I'm sure he would have mentioned his occupation more than once."
Would he have needed to? Aren't you supposed to know who's who in the justice system?
As jack ketch points out, he'll be pretty well known!
"I suspect the moment the phrase 'racially motivated abuse' fell, the police had no choice but to arrest the JP or find themselves on the wrong end of a disciplinary hearing..."
It's possible, but frankly, I'm tired of the police deciding which part of their jobs suits their self-interest best, and acting accordingly.