Sunday - May 12, 2013

more laughable law and disorder or …. what? me worry?

Crivens!
This case goes back to ‘09?  First we’ve seen of it.

So typical of law and order and the laughable justice system they have here. 
I make note of it and pay a lot of attention to these things because I so often read how bad our system is in the states.  Mostly though I hear it on the radio on panel shows.  There is almost always someone using the US system as an example of what you do not want.  Of course, it’s kinda close to the truth in the sense that in many cases we don’t want it either.  But hell, who consults “the people” anymore?

Then there’s folks who use our system of govt. ( which is prefect right guys?) as an example of the form of govt. that doesn’t work well and they use the senate deadlocks they hear about as an example of bad govt.
HOWEVER ....  the system here is not working all that hot these days. They have a coalition govt. in place at the moment because no party at the last natl. election could get a majority. From what I’ve seen so far, I am not alone in thinking it is NOT working out well at all. AND ... I am left wondering what the basic difference is between us since the Rep. and the Dems. in the US are at war on all fronts also.  However, many of our critics do not seem to be aware that in many cases we do get an opportunity to “throw da bums out” between major elections and we do hold referendums in our states without having to jump thru some of the hoops they do here.

Oh, speaking of referendums.  The old EU thing is in the air again and has been for a month or more.
The Brit PM said back in 2010 they could have one but it must have slipped his mind AFTER the election was over.  So now, nobody is surprised and nobody believes much of what he says. And that’s his own party.

The word now is there will be a vote on in or out of the EU BUT ...  AFTER the next election! In 2015.  BUT ... now get this.  Originally he said (before the recent local elections where UKIP, the UK Independence Party, made some very strong gains and won a number of seats AND ... did way better than the other party in the coalition at the present time.  He originally set the date for a vote on the EU for 2017! Soooooo he’s moved it forward and making some slightly more conservative noises. Not too much of course. But a slight sum.  And the party that calls itself conservative here is running scared. Or at least that’s the impression I get and it could a wrong one interpreted by a foreigner.

So now on to the topic I wanted to share that has to do with, (pauses for laffing fit) law and order.

‘Cash-for-crash’ gang swagger free from court after staging fake stag-do pile-up that was set to earn them £134,000 ( 205,810.60 USD )

Gang of 13 intentionally damaged minibus before taking it to crash scene
Six ambulances went to scene in Tyneside and the group faked injuries
But smug Richard Oliver and others avoid jail at Newcastle Crown Court

By Mark Duell

Flashing £20 notes after walking free from court with the rest of his criminal team, this is the smug smile of a ‘cash for crash’ gang member who helped staged an accident in a spoof stag do.

The scam involved the gang of 13 intentionally damaging their minibus near the Tyne Tunnel in North Tyneside, before driving it to the scene of the ‘crash’ - then claiming for whiplash injuries.

A second Peugeot vehicle was also purposely damaged and the defendants had claimed it was involved in the ‘smash’ - but the court heard it had never been anywhere near the minibus.

Smiling Richard Oliver, 25, of Jarrow, South Tyneside, was part of the gang, who would have taken £134,000 between them from insurance firm Aviva if they had pulled off the scheme.

A fleet of six ambulances raced to the scene of the faked accident on the north bend slip road of the A193 near the Tyne Tunnel, after one of the men dialled 999 at 7.45pm on August 19 2009.

The men were taken to North Tyneside Hospital, some in neck braces, where members of the group were given ‘unnecessary’ neck and spine x-rays, Newcastle Crown Court was told.

The driver Robert Paul, 45, the ‘groom’ Stephen Paul, 28, and the other ‘stag do revellers’ in the vehicle seemed to be ‘quite well’ when ambulance staff approached the minibus.

‘The defendants were laughing, smoking and chatting,’ James Adkin, prosecuting, said. ‘What followed was a domino effect as they began to hold their necks and say they had suffered injury.’

A few hours later they seemed to have made a ‘dramatic recovery’ and were ‘walking around’ at the hospital, Mr Adkin said. When police arrived, Robert Paul claimed he had not seen the other vehicle.

But an investigation by Northumbria Police discovered that the passengers of the mini-bus were in cahoots with the owner of the Peugeot, Ben LeBlond, and his ‘ghost passenger’ Marnie Simpson, 21.

Officers were immediately suspicious, as the men were two and a half hours away from Edinburgh, the supposed stag-weekend destination. The group then lied to paramedics, doctors and insurers.

Mr Adkin continued: ‘Robert Paul immediately started telling lies to the police. They were two and a half hours away from Edinburgh when it crashed so it would have been a limited affair.

‘Steven Paul immediately complained to the police he had neck pains. He said he was the groom.’

Officers also found no overnight bags or clothes for the ‘weekend away’. Aviva launched a probe and discovered through Facebook that many of the minibus passengers were friends with LeBlond.

boys night out, more to see here

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