Law and Rights
Here is a link to a report in the Manchester Evening News 21st February.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to investigate the arrest of a man at an anti-fracking camp. Dr Steven Peers is planning to sue Greater Manchester Police, claiming video footage shows an officer lying to detain him on ?trumped up? charges. He was filming a demonstration at Barton Moss in Salford and arrested for refusing a breath test after the policeman accused him of driving to the site having had drink. He was charged but the case collapsed at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court when prosecutors offered no evidence.
Worth watching ... !!!
Earlier post relating to "Fracking"
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Law and Rights
An event at an anti-fracking protest
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to investigate the arrest of a man at an anti-fracking camp. Dr Steven Peers is planning to sue Greater Manchester Police, claiming video footage shows an officer lying to detain him on ?trumped up? charges. He was filming a demonstration at Barton Moss in Salford and arrested for refusing a breath test after the policeman accused him of driving to the site having had drink. He was charged but the case collapsed at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court when prosecutors offered no evidence.
Worth watching ... !!!
Earlier post relating to "Fracking"
- Protesters Arrested ...
Please view the video with this article in a Sheffield newspaper THE STAR - Video - Police arrest protest pensioners It appears that there was a protest relating to cuts to rail travel passes. Such passes are (or have been) very beneficial...
- A Problematic Sentence: R V Bolton, Griffin And Marshall - Manchester Crown Court
Some sentences handed down by judges make people wonder just where the law is heading. Three men in Manchester have just received "Intensive Alternative to Custody" - (which is available in Greater Manchester) - sentences for an appalling crime. ...
- The Mark Berry ("bez") Case ....
From time to time various "celebrities" appear in the courts to stand trial for serious matters. Mark Berry - (of "Happy Mondays" and "Domino Bones fame") - has been before the magistrates' court at Manchester and has been sentenced to...
- What Happened In Wigan To A War Hero
The estimable Jack of Kent legal blog carries a post about What Happened to Lance Corporal Mark Aspinall in Wigan on a night out in July 2008. Jack of Kent has raised this because two of the officers have been acquitted by a jury at Manchester Crown...
- Drinking Banning Orders On Conviction
Did you know that (from 1st April 2010) the courts can impose a Drinking Banning Order on a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence committed whilst under the influence of drink? The law is in the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. ...