Mr Brooks said Vale had around 90 previous convictions and last July had been sentenced for carrying a kitchen knife in public.
Yes, you read that right. Ninety. 9...0...!
Rebecca Caulfield, defending, said before then incident Vale had taken heroin and crack cocaine...
No doubt he was able to afford this because he has a high flying city career..?
Judge Timothy Stead (Ed: Oh, no...) said Vale, who pleaded guilty to charges of affray and criminal damage, he had a “truly formidable criminal record” and added he had caused “real fear” to the staff and customers in the store.All he got this time? Six months.
The comments are very interesting. Obviously a " loveable rogue " in the Bolton area .
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Once the supermarket chain know which branch of Club Med (UK), this waste of oxygen is, they send him a letter telling him he is banned from every branch of their store in the UK, and that if he enters a store, it will be as a trespasser.
ReplyDeleteUnder those circumstances, if he does enter a store with a knife, and causes damage or steals, the offence is Aggravated Burglary, which will carry more than a 6 month sentence. The main problem with that is that he will have nice, cosy, accommodation and food, all paid for by us, the taxpayers, so he wins, and we lose, again.
Couldn't't the magistrate or Judge arrange for him to go to the Soylent building for a nice lie down?
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With automatic remission he will probably be out in about 16 weeks to resume his reign of terror then. Small wonder crime is such a thriving industry in UK, actually it's become a reasonable career choice with little chance of being caught and short restful periods holidaying in jail at the tax payers expence if your really unlucky some times. I am told why work when it's easy to make far more than a decent weeks wages just selling drugs on a Friday and Saturday night and it's all tax free.
ReplyDeleteHe wouldn't cause real fear to me, I can tell you, because I'd have bottled him and told the police it just fell on his head - three or four times - and that was why he was lying dead on the floor.
ReplyDeleteWhy do we tolerate these feckers?
"The comments are very interesting. "
ReplyDeleteSo often these days, far more so - and more informative than - the reporter's effort.
"Couldn't't the magistrate or Judge arrange for him to go to the Soylent building for a nice lie down?"
Perhaps we need to reinstate the concept of outlawry?
"Small wonder crime is such a thriving industry in UK, actually it's become a reasonable career choice with little chance of being caught and short restful periods holidaying in jail at the tax payers expence if your really unlucky some times."
The only better 'career choice' these days appears to be public sector work...
"Why do we tolerate these feckers?"
Because the alternative is we then become the low hanging fruit that the justice system eyes up?