Monday - June 20, 2011

some law, some disorder and lots of stuck on stupid

In a comment made on another subject, Wardmom4 said,

The liberal criminal ‘justice’ system is STUCK ON STUPID!

See what can be accomplished when you are just adult enough to tell the children NO and the criminals go to jail and then have some real consequences when they come out.

And that caught my eye and imagination when I read the story that came with the photo you see here.  But you don’t need that to see how completely upside down the ‘rule of law’ is. There wasn’t anyone to say NO to these guys when young.  And jail was no real threat either.

A ROBBER caught on camera taking part in a $435,000 raid on a London Jeweler had been free from jail for only 27 days.  He was set free after serving half his sentence for another heist of like nature. We can see how well the softly,softly approach to crime works. 

Good start to his career since he is only 20 years old. He’s learning early that even when caught, the law is pretty much toothless.

The govt. here is instituting a new scheme wherein if the bad guy admits guilt at arrest, then the prison term is halved. Originally it was going to include some rape crimes but the outrage was such that the plan was dropped in all rape cases as well as very violent crimes. But burglars and small time robbers or robbery without violence will see terms cut.

Hey,hey Britain. Waytago. You can show us barbarians in the USA exactly how crime should be dealt with while quoting our figures with regard to how many Americans are jailed. We are really mad and evil, right?

Anyway, the bad guys here were caught because DNA was found that nailed em to this crime. One of the two misunderstood miscreants has 19 previous convictions. He was awarded four years and three months.  Good. That’ll send a message I bet. A funny one. That’s exactly why I used the word “awarded.”

A gang of robbers armed with axes are being hunted by police after escaping with more than £100,000 worth of watches in a day-time raid on a City jewellers. Four men on mopeds struck at Watches of Switzerland in the City of London’s Royal Exchange yesterday afternoon. They broke through the locked front door of the store and used axes to smash cabinets grabbing handfuls of expensive watches.

A lone customer in the store and four staff were left terrified by the raid just before 3.30pm. As the gang sped off a City worker tried to grab one of the raiders at a zebra crossing but they escaped.

Police cornered two of the men on an industrial estate in Upper Holloway but they ran off abandoning a hold-all full of watches.

kids in playground helped solve the case:

A nine year old boy helped police crack a case involving the theft of almost a quarter of a million pounds worth of watches from a robbery after finding a mobile phone in his school playground. It’s thought the phone had either been ditched or was accidentally dropped by the robbers as they were fleeing the scene of the crime.

The contact details on the phone led police straight to the robbers and consequently both Jed McDonald aged 21 and Charlie Kavanagh aged 20, both living in Islington London were arrested along with three other suspects.

The robbery took place in the Royal Exchange London at the Watches of Switzerland shop on the 2nd of February this year. The store is a well know retail outlet for luxury and Swiss watches. During the robbery staff and customers were threatened by the robbers with axes as other members of the gang smashed open cabinets containing luxury watches.

At the case, held at the Old Bailey on the 17th of June the court heard that the robbers escaped with 28 watches worth an estimated £250,000 from leading luxury brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Cartier amongst others and after ditching their mopeds fled through a school playground in Holloway London where the phone was dropped along with other items including a balaclava which was found to contain the DNA of one of the suspects.

Due to the overwhelming evidence both men pleaded guilty. Jed McDonald was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months while Charlie Kavanagh was sentenced to 8 years.

[ June 3 ] City of London Police released the images after two of the four men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery. Jed McDonald, 21, and Charlie Kavanagh, 20, are waiting to be sentenced at the Old Bailey this month.

The pair, both from Islington, were arrested after they were identified by DNA traces on clothing and motorcycle gear. The items were abandoned after a police chase following the raid in February which ended at an estate in Upper Holloway.

The conviction is a much-needed success for police, who have been overwhelmed by London’s surge in these brazen yet hard to solve smash and grab raids. Last month alone there were more than ten in the borough of Westminster - double the number in the same month last year - and each year the haul from the raids is estimated at millions of pounds’ worth of goods.

Smash and grab raids on the streets of London are not new. They evolved from the notorious ram-raiders of the 1990s when criminals used high-powered cars to smash their way into stores to snatch jewels or high-value electrical goods. Pioneered in the North East where the raids quickly became an epidemic, London’s gangs adapted the methods to suit the city’s slow-moving traffic, quickly realising that motorbikes or mopeds were almost impossible to chase successfully and could escape through even the heaviest of traffic jams. Instead of using cars to break through shop fronts, robbers started carrying sledge-hammers or axes. Often the robberies last for just 30 seconds and the gangs are gone before police can arrive. Police say it is too dangerous to mount pursuits of the motorcycles or mopeds, which their riders drive at speeds of up to 100mph, sometimes through crowded streets.

Almost ironic: These 4 “men in black” did their crime just 2 days before an entire gang - 51 crooks - the infamous “Men In White” were convicted of the same kind of crimes:

Britain’s biggest robbery gang who smashed their way into dozens of jewellery stores swiping gems in 60 seconds, were jailed for a total of 140 years today.

Dubbed the ‘Men in White’ due to their distinctive boiler suits, the 51-strong gang used sledgehammers and axes to batter their way into High Street jewellers stealing £3.6million of designer watches and jewellery.

They were responsible for an extraordinary crime wave of 34 robberies in 16 months across the UK and Europe as they hit a new target every fortnight.

Posted by peiper     on 06/20/2011 at 05:31 AM   
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