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What Are the Police For, Again?

Intrigued. Confused. I have no idea what the hell is going on. All of the above. Jenny Murray recently wrote in her newspaper column that she was nearly a victim of a finance scam. She had answered a call from a ‘No Caller ID’ named Dan who told her (in…

Crime Doesn’t Pay? You Think…?

I watch a lot of crime programmes. The real true crime ones. Not the fictional nonsense that has the CSI (Crime Scene Investigators) sending blood samples off to the lab and getting the results back in five minutes or the police catching criminals, getting them convicted and locked up in…

Make Crime Pay?

Who says, crime doesn’t pay? Whoever did needs to think again. The phrase “crime doesn’t pay”, I believe, is an example of a Victorian saying that was meant to encourage morality and work. It is supposed to mean that crime or any illegal method of earning is not a profitable venture,…

Déjà vu? Huw!

Here we go again! Another celebrity [remember my piece on Katie Price?] comes before the courts, magistrates court that is, charged with a serious crime, and is basically let off. Huw Edwards. That’s who we are talking about just now. That doyen of the great British Broadcasting Corporation who, whilst…

Rough Justice – Tell Me About It!

Hey up! This can’t be right. Prisoners residing at His Majesty’s pleasure, claiming and getting state benefits? When they are already being housed, fed, and looked after at taxpayers’ expense? Something wrong here, methinks! It has come to light (although the practice has been in place for years) that nearly…

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Dead Man Talking – Trash!

Let me say first off, I don’t agree with capital punishment. Well, in general, that is. The chances of even one innocent being executed are too great and no amount of pardon or money is going to resurrect the dead and return them to their loved ones. Whilst I say…

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Can’t Buy Me Love – Money That Is!

When will they ever learn? Lonely British women, that is. Yet again we hear a sorry tale that some women of a certain age have fallen for the charms of an online ‘lover’ whose only interest is to relieve them of their hard-earned or inherited dosh. These women don’t just…

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Shoplifting as a Middle Class Sport…?

Can you Adam and Eve it? The middle-class shoplift for fun? What? They’ve given up the fun and frolics of Verbier and Saint Moritz? When was shoplifting ever fun? And when did it become a sport? It’s one thing if you are poor and in need and you walk out of a…

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Putting WFH on Probation

WTH! Probation officers WFH? How does that work? AFAIK*, probation officers are supposed to see their ‘clients’ face-to-face. Once convicted of an offence which is not imprisonable or the sentence is a combination of community payback and suspended custodial sentence, criminals are supposed to report to their probation officer at…