Disabled, Or Arrogant?

The 35-year-old ex-RAF officer was a sergeant and sometimes acting inspector for Merseyside Police at the time, Manchester Crown Court heard.

He made 20 false reports to Crimestoppers, between July 2014 and May, 2015, anonymously reporting that his target, a father-of-two, was dealing heroin and cocaine and made 15 further false allegations to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).

Some of the reports were made online while he sat at his computer in Tuebrook police station in Liverpool, the court heard.

/facepalm

...Hughes, who has dyslexia, was caught after forging documents purporting to be from his Chief Superintendent and Superintendent, to be used in court - and spelled their ranks wrongly.

YCMIU...

John Parry-Jones, mitigating, said the defendant was suffering from an undiagnosed borderline personality disorder, which predisposed him to engage in impulsive and risky behaviour.

Then why the hell was he taken on by the local farce?! Did he tick someone's disability box?

Detective Chief Superintendent Karen Cummings said: 'Merseyside Police demands the highest possible standards from its officers and staff. '

Clearly, that's not true.

Brave Enough In A Gang, Though...

The defendant, from Harlow, sat next to his father at the back of the court and was not in the dock.

The barristers and Judge Patricia Lynch QC removed their wigs for the hearing due to the vulnerability and age of the defendant and witnesses.

Not so 'vulnerable' that he can't assault a grown man. With seven of this thuggish friends to back him up. From behind, of course.

Maybe It's Not The Road That's Dangerous....

...rather, it's the actions of the pedestrians?

People living near to the A259 Brighton Road in Shoreham are calling for a safer crossing to be installed on the busy road.

It comes after a 15-year-old Spanish language student was hit by a lorry on the road between the and the High Street.

We already know that it doesn't matter where you put a crossing. You could put one every 100 yards and if people felt like it, they'd cross between two of them just to save a 45 yard walk...

Joanne Parsons, 55, of Ormonde Way, who started the petition, said: “The response to the petition has been really good.

“Another foreign student got hit at the same place before.

“The traffic island is narrow, if you’re in a group or taking your dog to Adur Recreation Ground it is very dangerous.”

Visibility looks pretty good to me. 

No, You're Not Doing 'The Police's Job'...

Mr Green’s warning comes days after a community safety meeting in Islington where Michelle McPhillips, mother of murdered 28-year-old Jonathan McPhillips, called for greater police efforts to halt a recent spate of knife crime in the capital.

What more can they do?

“People are actually doing ‘safe stabbings’ – using a knife in a way they know won’t kill,” she was quoted in the Islington Gazette as saying.

That's because they're thick. There's no such thing.

She said: “A lot of people in this borough don’t know about the murder of my son.

Well, yes, because they're thick too.

“I am handing out leaflets myself, doing the police’s job. You understand? There’s no support for us out there. It’s like we are doing all the work ourselves.

It's not the job of the police, you moron! Good grief, is everyone thick in Islington?

“I am approaching young people on the Marquess Estate, a hotspot where a couple of months ago there were three stabbings in the space of 24 hours.”

Keep approaching them, there'll soon be another!

Arrest The Survivor, Sort It Out Later...

Bobby Munroe died after the horror smash close to the junction with Hobleythick Lane, Westcliff, in December last year.

A 35-year-old man, from Shoebury, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and driving while unfit through drink or drugs, but he has now been released from bail.

Eh..?

The dad-of-one’s heartbroken sister Vickie, 34, said the decision was hard to deal with but has brought a part of the tragedy to an end.

She said: “Whatever the decision, it was never going to bring Bobby back.

“We are grateful that the driver wasn’t some idiot on drink or drugs who was off his face- that would have been really hard to take.

“The only thing that we can take from it is that it was just a tragic accident. Neither one of them was at fault, it’s something that happens every single day.

“It’s very unfortunate but I’m personally glad Bobby didn’t die because of someone’s stupid actions.”

Wait, surely he did? If not the driver, then his own?

An inquest into Mr Munroe’s death was opened in December and established that he died at the scene from multiple injuries. It will now be concluded later this year.

An Essex Police spokesman said: “A 35-year-old man from Shoebury arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and driving whilst unfit through drink or drugs has been released without further action.”

But surely he failed a breath test/drug wipe? Otherwise why arrest him at all?

Too Little, Too Late, As Always...

Witnesses described the attack on July 2 outside the May Garland Inn in Horam as “terrifying,” as the landlord’s boxer-cross hurled itself against the window of a van, barking and growling, before haring across the car park and into the road to savage the terrier.

The dog, which has also now been put down, had attacked two other pets in the previous month.

You'd think that might have clued in the owner, but you'd have been wrong.

Pub landlord Asher Burman told The Argus he had not been made aware of his pet’s aggression when he retrieved her from a rescue shelter two months ago.

The two attacks subsequent to that weren't enough?

He said: “I tried to save that dog, and in trying to save the dog someone else’s dog died. It’s tragic and upsetting.”

He said that he had “not considered” having the dog put down after the first and second attacks, but had taken her to specialist training which had begun to moderate her behaviour.

Yeah. We can see how well it worked.

He said the dog had been put down last Tuesday, adding: “I had to, in the interests of everyone in my street.”

In case the others 'in your street' decided to show their displeasure by deciding to drink elsewhere?

Lawlessness....

The three suspects sprang from behind a bush in Dagenham and pulled a knife on the teenagers, with one them telling their victims: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”

The thieves – one of whom had gold teeth – then made off with two bikes, the bag and £40 in cash.

The mum of one of the victims, who has asked to remain anonymous, said the robbery at about 7.50pm on Monday, July 24, had traumatised her son. 

Hmmm, I wonder what sort of muggers we are talking about here?

The suspects, who are described as black males aged 18 to 19, fled the crime scene, with one heading toward Fourth Avenue and the other two heading for Romford.

Ah. Say no more.

When the boys returned home, their parents were quick to appeal for information on Facebook, which led to one user claiming to have seen the suspects with the stolen bikes in Shafter Road, Dagenham.

The victims’ dads jumped into a car in the hope of reclaiming the stolen items. But when they confronted the thieves they were immediately surrounded by about 20 other males and left with no option but to get in the car and drive home.

Did anyone call the police? Or did they (probably correctly) figure there was little point?

The mum who told the Post about the robbery said she’d been dreading something like this happening since he entered his early teens.

“It’s sad but they’re at that age now where we expect it,” she said.

“I knew something would happen eventually – this is craziness.”

No-one should 'expect' this!

Nobody was injured in the robbery and no arrests have been made. Witnesses can call police on 101, contact them on Twitter at @MetCC or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Why bother? It's not like they are any use and some of them seem to be worse than muggers themselves...

The Council Doesn't Like Being Undercut...

Furious residents and councillors became suspicious after a huge pile of waste started to build up after two groups of travellers set up camp in Rushley Park, Basildon.

The pile was so large it appeared to be impossible for the group of 12 travellers to have left it by themselves. Then the dumping scheme emerged.

Which it never would have, had they not been undercutting the official council tip!

Basildon Council paid £500 for security guards to stand at the entrance last Thursday and they were stunned to hear people were bringing their rubbish to the site to dump it.

They told them the travellers were charging other travellers to dump their waste there.

/facepalm

...previously travellers had left 100 tonnes of rubbish near to St Nicholas Church in Laindon. The cost of the clean-up reached about £6,000 and so the £500 sum was a small price to pay in comparison.

Maybe if you embarked on a course of action, such as landing the travellers with the bill rather than the poor bloody taxpayer, you wouldn't need to..?

Perhaps She Misunderstood The Term 'Called To The Bar'..?

Emily Summers lashed out at the sister of the bride in the smoking area of East Coast Social, in London Road, Southend, after an earlier row on the night of March 18.

Southend Magistrates’ Court heard the victim had to use Photoshop to edit the embarrassing wedding snaps and has since forked out £280 for laser treatment.

Lovely!

Simon Samuels, mitigating, said the mother-of-two had no previous convictions, had contacted the police herself after initially fleeing the scene and admitted assault by beating.

He said Summers was in the second year of an Open University law degree and the offence was driven by a growing problem with alcohol.

What does she plan to specialise in, personal injury cases?

He said: “This is a case of a young woman taking on too much, too young. She married at the age of 19 and within two years she was a mother-of-two.

“She had a few hours of freedom where the children would be looked after by someone else. Quite simply, she drank far too much alcohol.”

But don't worry, the courts will be lenient...

Summers was told to pay £750 in compensation and carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.

Not, one hopes, giving out legal advice.

Transgressions...

I've always wondered what it took to get you a Twitter 'soft ban', and now I know:

I'd always thought it took swearing, or persistent harassment, or libel, or breaching a court order. Turns out it's none of those things. 

It's upsetting a SJW with the truth about Rashan Charles, the idiot who choked on what turned out to be fake drugs.

But when you have a blog as well as a Twitter account, there's no silencing you...