Turin Samba player found not guilty!
Matt S | 06.01.2004 11:36 | DSEi 2003
The case against the samba player from Turin, who had been accused of three counts of
assaulting a police officer, was dropped today due to police ineptitude.
assaulting a police officer, was dropped today due to police ineptitude.
The case against the samba player from Turin, who had been accused of three counts of
assaulting a police officer, was dropped today due to police ineptitude. The police
officer who had brought the case against the activist had typed the wrong date in his
memo (6/2/2004 rather than 6/1/2004), and so none of the police witnesses turned up!
Quite rightly, the presiding magistrate rebuked the police for gross incompetence, and
when it was pointed out that the defendant and several witnesses had come from Italy for
the trial (as well as UK witnesses having travelled from Edinburgh and Northern England),
he dropped all three charges and abandoned the case.
There is no doubt that the large number of defence witnesses helped convince the
magistrate (who was already visibly annoyed at police incompetence, which he must get
a lot of) that the case should be dropped. Solidarity is our weapon!
Matt
assaulting a police officer, was dropped today due to police ineptitude. The police
officer who had brought the case against the activist had typed the wrong date in his
memo (6/2/2004 rather than 6/1/2004), and so none of the police witnesses turned up!
Quite rightly, the presiding magistrate rebuked the police for gross incompetence, and
when it was pointed out that the defendant and several witnesses had come from Italy for
the trial (as well as UK witnesses having travelled from Edinburgh and Northern England),
he dropped all three charges and abandoned the case.
There is no doubt that the large number of defence witnesses helped convince the
magistrate (who was already visibly annoyed at police incompetence, which he must get
a lot of) that the case should be dropped. Solidarity is our weapon!
Matt
Matt S
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06.01.2004 11:51
against the DSEI delegates dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, on September 11th 2003.
The police attacked the samba band, and then accused one member of the band of assaulting
them. Investigations into police conduct at DSEI continue.
Matt
Matt S
Great news!
06.01.2004 11:57
Pete
Police failed to show again
06.01.2004 18:12
12 more face obstruction charges on Jan 22 at Stratford Magistrates Court.
Deacon Dave
"Anyone know about what happened to the sheffield guy"
06.01.2004 18:35
s
Brilliant news!
07.01.2004 16:31
Thatś really brilliant news, I so pleased.. nice to see a magistrate doing their job properly for once, rather than penalising you for having a brain or being hit by a copper. Very much love to Francesco.. hope you come back and visit us again without shuddering at the thought of returning!
Also well done to Deacon Dave. Wee got some pretty good Dsei court results all round considering.
Sambaqueen x
Sambaqueen
Yeah!!! More free Samba!
22.01.2004 06:11
Congratts,
Nh@, of the Infernal Noise Brigade
Nhatt