Saturday - April 12, 2014

TWO HEADLINES, SAME STORY.  SIGN OF THE TIMES.

Two different headlines from two different conservative papers covering the same story.

The Telegraph is the more responsible and less tabloid in their approach.
But the Mail?
The Daily Mail is a whole other country.

It isn’t a pleasant story and to be honest, it has all the elements to make an oldster like myself much concerned about the future. 

I think the care home in the following story could have handled this a lot better. They could have spoken to the old fellow and heard what he had to say.  But their reaction was typical of the informers and jobsworths and the politically correct lemmings that populate the world today. 

First, from The Telegraph.

The headline.

Man, 83, barred from sick wife’s side after giving her painkiller.

Walter Crompton was detained by police for seven hours when he went to visit his wife of 60 years who suffers from dementia

By Telegraph reporter
4:05PM BST 10 Apr 2014
An 83-year-old man was arrested and locked up for seven hours for giving his wife painkiller patches at a care home.
Walter Crompton was detained by police when he went to visit Ellen, his wife of 60 years, who suffers from dementia.
Care home staff had contacted officers four days earlier after Mr Compton gave her the morphine patches.
He was arrested for administering a toxic substance and his subsequent bail conditions bar him from seeing his wife until the end of the month.
Mr Compton insisted the treatment had been prescribed by a doctor. “It’s a patch. Nobody ever killed anybody with a patch. I don’t understand why they needed to arrest me. I was just trying to help my wife and I didn’t know it was against the rules,” he said.

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Same story …. The Daily Mail headline.

And for the record. Anyone who served in the forces at any time in any way, is, according to their headline writers, a hero. See the last line just before the link.

RAF hero, 83 arrested and locked up for seven hours – for taking painkillers to his wife in a care home

AN 83-year-old grandfather was arrested and banned from seeing his wife of 60 years after he gave her painkiller patches during a visit to her care home.
Walter Crompton took in the prescription medication – which contains morphine – when his wife Eileen complained about pain from arthritis.

But suspicious workers at the care home in Manchester called the police and the devoted husband was arrested for ‘administering a noxious substance’.
The RAF veteran was then detained for more than eight hours – seven of which were spent in a cell on his own without any food. He was asked to give fingerprints and a DNA sample and his house was searched, before he was interviewed by officers at midnight.

Mr Crompton was eventually released and taken home at 1am – but as part of his bail conditions he was barred from contacting his 83-year-old wife or visiting the care home. He now has to be supervised during his visits and could still be charged. If convicted, he could be jailed for up to five years.
Last night Mr Crompton said he had been treated as if he was a ‘drug dealer’ and ‘hardened criminal’ for giving his wife the patches she had been prescribed by a doctor for more than six years.
‘I have been her carer for 15 years, to arrest me over a criminal act is crazy. I used to look after her 24 hours a day so I know what she can and can’t have.
‘They put me in a police van and locked the cage. I have never been in trouble in 83 years. The police banged me in a cell. I have never been in a cell, I’ve only seen stuff like that on television.’
At midnight they sent for a solicitor and took me into the interview room where I was interviewed for 45 minutes.
‘Fortunately the solicitor said this is ridiculous and I got home at 1.10am.’
Mr Crompton was at first not allowed to see his wife. From yesterday his bail conditions were changed so that he can visit her – but only with a supervisor.
He said: ‘A woman is going to tell me when I can see my wife.
‘If I want to go at one o’clock she has to agree otherwise I can’t see her. You don’t want somebody sat there when you are seeing your wife.

Mr Crompton, who was an aircraft engineer, joined that RAF aged 20 and was based in North Wales and Germany.

Sorry about the link that isn’t. It worked for me earlier but .... no longer.  ??  The article was in the morning issue of The Daily Mail which has an online version.
Usually, everything they have in the hard copy is right there online too.  Sometimes however, and I’ve no idea why, what we find online is Press Display. Where, I can usually get the article I’m looking for.  It’s where I got what you see above. 

Ha, found the Mail Online version

  press display   seems to be working again. never mind.

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