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17 year old RBS girl is released on bail

support | 04.04.2009 00:09 | G20 London Summit

The girl arrested at the RBS has support of friends.

The 17 year old girl arrested at the RBS has been released on bail after pleading guilty at the west London youth court. Defendants in the youth court are not allowed to be identified. She appreciates that. She was released to the address of friends who are supporting her. She had suffered injuries at the hands of the police, including a cut face.
The girl pleaded guilty to burglary and criminal damage. She is due to be sentenced in three weeks time. Members of the press were allowed into court. A scum of about 8 paparazzi followed her out of court photographing her even though they are not allowed to publish the photos. A journalist said 'were not the enemy - I'm from the telegraph'. A man, who had been released from the magistrates court next door to the youth court on an unrelated matter, challenged the press on their behaviour and called the girl a g20 hero.
The girl has been banned from entering the area within the M25 except to attend court. She is staying with friends in another town.

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friend of a friend

05.04.2009 11:48

this is a very close friend of said 17 year old girl and she has asked me personally asked me to thank and salute all of the people who to this moment are still being so supportive. on a personal note, thnks to all those possible humanoids who think it is right for any stable minded human to be in prison. think about it, how would you like to be locked away for proverbially farting in the wrong place. either which way those comments made us and our mates laugh so enjoy.

friend of a friend

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hero?

04.04.2009 00:39

i beg to disagree. shes a criminal

steff

she IS a hero

04.04.2009 00:55

No this girl is a hero I have no hesitation in saluting her and her comrades and i condemn the behaviour of the police in the strongest possible terms

george coombs

More Criminals of that sort needed

04.04.2009 00:58

Congratulations are due to the girl who chose to channel her anger towards the REAL CRIMINALS of society (none other than the institutions of capitalism) rather than take the 'easy way' out and engage against the proletariat; a scene witnessed all to often in todays society. Also to the Police Scum who choose to endanger human life in order to protect the structures of legalised criminals, I say this: Your day will come, Justice will prevail.

Another Criminal

@steff

04.04.2009 01:29

beg all you want. its possible to be a criminal and a hero. i'm guessing you're neither.

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beg

04.04.2009 01:33

beg all you want. its possible to be a criminal and a hero. i'm guessing you're neither.

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Perhaps she's both?

04.04.2009 01:47

One does not preclude the other, innit?

Jocasta Woolfolk
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We were all heroes

04.04.2009 08:26

All those who took on the capitalist scum that day were heroes. If our numbers had been bigger we would have really took control of the City and beaten the cops, but due to other demos taking place on the same day like the Stop The War march and the climate camp our numbers were relatively low at Bank Place and so the police had the upper hand.

G20 Rioter

Steff? You beg?

04.04.2009 10:28

You're begging?

You're not another banker begging for several hundred billion bailout are you?

These pesky people who break buildings are so much worse than executives who beg constantly. In fact, I would even go so far as to to say Sir Fred is a hero for the cause of beggers.

Krop

solidarity

04.04.2009 15:05

if this girl or anyone else need help with costs or lawers please make it public here in indymedia and the call we will help as much as posible ...one struglle one fight ....thanx a lot to all the comrades who fight against injustice and pigs on wednesday ...

one of many

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solution

04.04.2009 16:30

fuck her. lock her up and throw away the key
she dropped out of school at 13 and has been a professional protestor all her life.
Just consumes, destroys and costs money to keep alive and police

toby

@ toby

04.04.2009 17:55

Fuck her? As least she's standing up for what she believes in!

Why do you think it's important to mention she dropped out of school? It doesn't mean she's not an intelligent person or any less respectable. I know people with loads of qualifications, a lot of 'intelligence'...on paper. But they know nothing about what's happening in the World or the things that actualy affect them!

And what do you mean she's "a professional protester"? She doesn't do it as a career... she doesn't get paid... Because she channelled some anger towards a bank and did something she believed in doing, you think she deserves to go to prison, while bankers who've scammed thousands of people out of thousands of pounds and lie and cheat for their careers continue to get paid millions in bonuses and pensions.

Prison solves nothing, all it would do for someone of 17 is to screw up the rest of her life as far as getting a job, etc. is concerned so saying "lock her up and throw away the key" is pretty disgusting.

Jenny

Remember and never forget don't feed the trolls!

04.04.2009 18:56

They thrive on response.....

@narchist
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anyone who attacks banks or bankers are heroes in my book

04.04.2009 19:17

Anyone who attacks banks or bankers are heroes in my book.

The law is written for and enforced by the rich and those in power, so quite often it is a commendable act to break it.

To the anonymous woman who it is: you are a hero and you should feel proud and justified in what you did. If only society had more people like you.

bankers are wankers

fire starters

04.04.2009 20:10

although we'd like to think of this girl as standing defiantly against the opressors with a steely eye and the sun glinting in her golden hair - lets just stick to facts.

From her solicitor in court:
She had drunk 4 cans of strong lager.
She had no specific intention of entering the building or causing damage.
She was vastly influenced by her friends.
She said was "remorseful" and "had made a rash decision"

This isn't a hero. This is a yob (sorry to use Sun-terminology)

Lets also consider the guy who set a fire. Many people are outraged and find it laughable that he is being charged with "endangering people's lives". Starting a fire in an occupied building is very, very serious.

There are many cases of this happening with mass loss of life. We've all heard of nightclubs burning down with people inside because some idiot started a fire. Consider the biggest fire in the UK: Falcon's Nest Hotel.... 53 people died because some kids thought it would be a laugh to light a little fire on the roof. They didn't want to kill anyone, but i don't think any firestarter does. That doesn't deflect from the fact that it is a very serious crime with potentially horrendous loss of life. Then we have the australian arson fires which have led to massive loss of life. I wouldn't think twice about throwing the book at this guy purely from a deterrent point of view.

sky

hmm

04.04.2009 23:32

> From her solicitor in court:
> She had drunk 4 cans of strong lager.
> She had no specific intention of entering the building or causing damage.
> She was vastly influenced by her friends.
> She said was "remorseful" and "had made a rash decision"

Well sure, but bear in mind that any decent solicitor would surely play up such mitigating factors in court.

And whether those points are true or not, she deserves our support.

n

Brecht had it right ...

04.04.2009 23:46

What is the crime of the bank robber compared to those that own the bank?

We should care less about what is legal and fight for what is moral.

Fuck the law, we want justice.

onamove

sky = state propaganda

05.04.2009 00:55

I don't know if sky is deliberately pushing state propaganda or if they are just deluded, but people with such a disgusting lack of solidarity are just who we don't need:

> She had drunk 4 cans of strong lager.

So what? Are we all supposed to be straightedge teetotallers now?

> She had no specific intention of entering the building or causing damage.

So what? Opportunism is an excellent strategy.

> She was vastly influenced by her friends.

Aren't we all, we gain strength from being around like-minded people.

> She said was "remorseful" and "had made a rash decision"

You are probably going to say this in court whatever, that's the way the game works. Otherwise the scum judges will punish you more for not bowing and scraping to them.

I can't believe we get this kind of negative hypercritical bullshit on Indymedia. Maybe the Daily Mail comments would be more up your street?

The more "yobs" we have trashing banks the better.

I don't know any details of the alleged arson, but I imagine anyone in any nearby building would have been watching the goings-on out of their windows, so I doubt anyone would have been at risk in any way. They probably undertook far greater risks travelling to work and crossing the road that morning.

If you are in an office above a bank and a riotous mob of bank-hating anarchists are closing in on it, you would have to be especially stupid not to realise a quick evacuation of the building might be on the cards.

anon

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friend of a friend

05.04.2009 11:27

this is a very close friend of said 17 year old girl and she has personally asked me to thank all those people who are being so supportive and also those who had some smashy smashy fun on wednesday. also on a personal note thank you to all those possible humanoids who think any1 should be put in prison. think about it shes a fucking human. how would you like prison for proverbially farting in the wrong place. either which way those comments made a few of us laugh. anyhow Im outs catch ye all in a bitty.

friend of a friend

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wheres your tool

05.04.2009 13:44

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAifvU8IQps

bernard

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