She alleged in 2018 Mr Ramzan suggested she travel to Amsterdam, where he put her to work in a brothel and then sold her at auction for €25,000, although she was allowed to come home when the buyer could not make the payment. The court heard that when police made inquiries into Mr Ramzan's whereabouts at the time of the alleged trip, they discovered a 'more mundane' story.
Mr Sandiford said: 'They found his phone did not leave Barrow on those few days. 'They looked at his bank cards and in fact, instead of acting as an international human trafficker in Amsterdam, he was buying things in B&Q Barrow and filling his car with petrol in Asda.'
Amazingly, the police appear to have done actual investigative work in this case, rather than simply arresting the accused entirely on her say-so and retiring to the canteen for breakfast...
Williams denies seven counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice. Her trial, which opened on Tuesday, is expected to last up to 10 weeks.
Why? Why must we spend yet more money on this?
10 whole weeks of taxpayer expense that could be avoided if the police just told these women to do one when they waltzed in the station?
Discombobulated plod. Utterly clueless.
ReplyDelete"Her trial ......is expected to last 10 weeks."
ReplyDeleteIf (or when) she is found guilty, a sentence of one year, before parole, for each week of trial seems fair to me. Perhaps it may concentrate the minds of similar witches somewhat.
Penseivat
Ten weeks? Any jury will convict her just for having been sitting there that long. I'm sure they could sort it in a much shorter time
ReplyDeleteIn whose interest is it that the process should be swift and efficient.
ReplyDeleteThe taxpayer.
Everybody else it is all Jarndyce v Jarndyce. Luvly luvly overtime. A break from trawling the internet for Hate.
A chance to take advantage of the current shit economic situation to move cheaply up the property ladder.
With a bit of luck there will be another fullnfranc public inquiry.
Like Embra tram fiasco inquiry. Which is going on so long, and costing squillions, when we know that the people to blame are all, unfortunately, dead.
Cynical? Moi?
Alternative Daily Mail headline.
ReplyDelete" Grooming victim turned away by incompetent police".
You choose.
Jaded
"...a sentence of one year, before parole, for each week of trial seems fair to me."
ReplyDeleteMe too! Plus add on what the man would have got.
"Any jury will convict her just for having been sitting there that long."
😂
"In whose interest is it that the process should be swift and efficient.
The taxpayer."
And we don't count...
"Alternative Daily Mail headline.
" Grooming victim turned away by incompetent police".
You choose."
Pretty sure that could be batted away by any half-decent PR hire. If the police ever employed any...