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Nothing could more graphically illustrate the gulf between public opinion and governmental and judicial attitudes than the controversy over the result of the BBC Radio 4 poll on new laws.
The majority of listeners voted in favour of a Martin’s Law, to allow householders the right to use virtually any means to repel burglars. Labour MP Stephen Pound, who had promised to promote a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament for the winning idea, swiftly recanted.
In Italy just such a law has been enacted.
LATEST NEWS Mrs. Brenda Robinson (66) spent the night in a cell for clipping a young hooligan round the ear. He had threatened her with a piece of wood and called her a f****** bitch after she remonstrated with him for kicking a ball against her daughters car.
A short time before a neighbour had been head-butted by another thug, breaking his nose and causing severe bruising. Bournemouth Police arrested Mrs. Robinson the hooligans, of course, went free.
Donna Appleyard, a 32 year old mother of two, from Knottingley West Yorkshire was plagued for two years by a crowd of up to 15 teenagers who congregated outside her home. Paint was thrown over her and neighbour’s walls, plants destroyed, footballs kicked against her house and constant foul language.
She finally snapped and told them to **** off. A thirteen year old girl, who probably has the vocabulary of the proverbial Grimsby fish-wife, complained.
Mrs. Appleyard received an £80 fixed penalty notice which, she quite rightly, refused to pay. Local magistrates then increased it to £120, which she still wont pay. She now faces a prison sentence. No doubt the police officer involved was labelled Community Support Officer.
It is high time the pendulum was weighted in favour of law-abiding citizens and away from the politically correct defense of the offenders.
I have long held the view that any person injured in the event of trespass or other
illegal activity should be deemed to be the author of their own misfortune. At the present time if a burglar enters your property and injures himself, Say by tripping on a loose carpet and falling down stairs, he is quite likely to successfully sue you for any injury he sustains.
Nothing could more graphically illustrate the gulf between public opinion and governmental and judicial attitudes than the controversy over the result of the BBC Radio 4 poll on new laws.
The majority of listeners voted in favour of a Martin’s Law, to allow householders the right to use virtually any means to repel burglars. Labour MP Stephen Pound, who had promised to promote a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament for the winning idea, swiftly recanted.
In Italy just such a law has been enacted.
LATEST NEWS Mrs. Brenda Robinson (66) spent the night in a cell for clipping a young hooligan round the ear. He had threatened her with a piece of wood and called her a f****** bitch after she remonstrated with him for kicking a ball against her daughters car.
A short time before a neighbour had been head-
Donna Appleyard, a 32 year old mother of two, from Knottingley West Yorkshire was plagued for two years by a crowd of up to 15 teenagers who congregated outside her home. Paint was thrown over her and neighbour’s walls, plants destroyed, footballs kicked against her house and constant foul language.
She finally snapped and told them to **** off. A thirteen year old girl, who probably has the vocabulary of the proverbial Grimsby fish-
It is high time the pendulum was weighted in favour of law-
I have long held the view that any person injured in the event of trespass or other
illegal activity should be deemed to be the author of their own misfortune. At the present time if a burglar enters your property and injures himself, Say by tripping on a loose carpet and falling down stairs, he is quite likely to successfully sue you for any injury he sustains.
With the exception of rape, invasion of the privacy of her home by burglary is
probably the most traumatic experience for a woman. The experience is so harrowing that in many cases she never again feels safe in her home. In some cases they even move house at a cost of thousands of pounds whilst the perpetrators are treated by the courts as petty criminals.
probably the most traumatic experience for a woman. The experience is so harrowing that in many cases she never again feels safe in her home. In some cases they even move house at a cost of thousands of pounds whilst the perpetrators are treated by the courts as petty criminals.
Major problems call for major solutions. A warning may be perfectly adequate for a first offender, however subsequent offences should automatically mean a custodial sentence. This should increase with every subsequent conviction with loss of remission rights. Let all the bleeding heart liberals use their energies visiting the miscreants in prison in their efforts to understand them.
A car, after a house, is probably the second most expensive item purchased by the average person. Taking a motor vehicle should be a much more serious offence than under current legislation. Robbing a bank of the equivalent value would attract a prison sentence in excess of ten years. Whilst not advocating this, an automatic custodial sentence would have a dramatic effect on the crime figures. It is time taking a motor vehicle stopped being treated as petty crime.
In the opinion of the Home Office the list of low-level crimes include: criminal damage, vehicle crime, violence against the person, burglary, theft, robbery and assaults on the Police. Note the absence of motoring offences!
Many of these offences are now to be rewarded with a fine of UP TO £500 and will not count as a criminal conviction. When did any court in the country last apply a maximum sentence for anything?
Whatever happened to zero tolerance.
Riding your bicycle without a bell may soon get you a fine of £2500 or two years in prison.
Between 1981 and 1995 the number of burglars sentenced to prison in the UK fell from 7·8 per 1000 to 2·2 per 1000..
Over the same period burglary rates more than doubled, from 40·9 per thousand homes to 82·9 per thousand homes.
Police have now given a green light to shoplifters by saying they will not attend if the theft is less than £75 in value.
Am I alone in thinking someone has their priorities wrong?
What world are our politicians living in?
Under a new law now before parliament bailiffs are to be given the right to break into peoples homes to take possession of goods and chattels. Many of these people are on a par with the wheel-clampers. On a recent T.V. Programme bailiffs took goods that had cost £8500 and sold them at auction for less than £1,000 reducing a couples debts by about £600. Who on earth was this ridiculous action supposed to benefit?
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Alan Rawlinson and his wife Gaynor, a magistrate, who live in St. Helens, received a visit by two police officers who informed them that their son had been accused of a very serious offence. Two other officers visited their son’s primary school. Apparently the eleven year old had sent an e-mail to a class mate calling him ‘gay’ (a word he did not even know the modern meaning of).
A man left his home, picking up post off of the mat on the way. Finding two pieces of junk mail amongst it, he deposited the offending articles in the nearest letter bin. A perfectly reasonable act? Oh no! A jobsworth from the local council issued a summons and he was fined £150 for depositing domestic rubbish in a council bin.
Newsagent Ted Patel from Upminster Essex, received a fixed penalty notice of £50 when a uniformed council official marched into his shop at 7.50 a.m. One morning claiming he had found a piece of paper with his name on it next to a bin 120 yards from his shop. If he contests the fine in court he could be made to pay up to £5,000.
In October 20006, Michael Reeves was fined £200 when Swansea Council officials found a scrap of paper among bottles he had deposited as part of a voluntary recycling scheme.
At Gorton in Manchester an 11 year old boy was sent a £50 penalty notice when an envelope with his name and address on it was found half a mile from his home. Council officials later retracted ,acknowledging it had also been 100 yards from the municipal tip.
A car, after a house, is probably the second most expensive item purchased by the average person. Taking a motor vehicle should be a much more serious offence than under current legislation. Robbing a bank of the equivalent value would attract a prison sentence in excess of ten years. Whilst not advocating this, an automatic custodial sentence would have a dramatic effect on the crime figures. It is time taking a motor vehicle stopped being treated as petty crime.
In the opinion of the Home Office the list of low-
Many of these offences are now to be rewarded with a fine of UP TO £500 and will not count as a criminal conviction. When did any court in the country last apply a maximum sentence for anything?
Whatever happened to zero tolerance.
Riding your bicycle without a bell may soon get you a fine of £2500 or two years in prison.
Between 1981 and 1995 the number of burglars sentenced to prison in the UK fell from 7·8 per 1000 to 2·2 per 1000..
Over the same period burglary rates more than doubled, from 40·9 per thousand homes to 82·9 per thousand homes.
Police have now given a green light to shoplifters by saying they will not attend if the theft is less than £75 in value.
Am I alone in thinking someone has their priorities wrong?
What world are our politicians living in?
Under a new law now before parliament bailiffs are to be given the right to break into peoples homes to take possession of goods and chattels. Many of these people are on a par with the wheel-
Share your views with us law&order@turning-
OTT or What?
Alan Rawlinson and his wife Gaynor, a magistrate, who live in St. Helens, received a visit by two police officers who informed them that their son had been accused of a very serious offence. Two other officers visited their son’s primary school. Apparently the eleven year old had sent an e-
A man left his home, picking up post off of the mat on the way. Finding two pieces of junk mail amongst it, he deposited the offending articles in the nearest letter bin. A perfectly reasonable act? Oh no! A jobsworth from the local council issued a summons and he was fined £150 for depositing domestic rubbish in a council bin.
Newsagent Ted Patel from Upminster Essex, received a fixed penalty notice of £50 when a uniformed council official marched into his shop at 7.50 a.m. One morning claiming he had found a piece of paper with his name on it next to a bin 120 yards from his shop. If he contests the fine in court he could be made to pay up to £5,000.
In October 20006, Michael Reeves was fined £200 when Swansea Council officials found a scrap of paper among bottles he had deposited as part of a voluntary recycling scheme.
At Gorton in Manchester an 11 year old boy was sent a £50 penalty notice when an envelope with his name and address on it was found half a mile from his home. Council officials later retracted ,acknowledging it had also been 100 yards from the municipal tip.