Monday - October 29, 2012

VICTIM BEATEN UP BY A GREMLIN AND THEN SCREWED BY THE COURT. SO MUCH FOR JUSTICE

Now this is one hell of an outrageous article.
What kind of a justice system says it is unfair to a defendant to reschedule a trial for assault, because changing things would be unfair to him?
A totally screwed up system and court. That’s what. 
And get ready ... it was all for just THIRTY DAMN MINUTES.

Meanwhile, the leaches in government and various spokesmen and women perhaps, continue to talk tough and promise stern measures against miscreants like this guy who, at the moment must be laughing his head off.  And why not?  Look what he got away with and all due to a mistake made by the prosecution. Was it a mistake of evidence?  DNA? A bad witness? A missing witness? 
Yes to the last. The witness being in this case , the victim.
But she didn’t skip court.  The prosecution gave her an incorrect time for court, and so she missed the court where she was supposed to be.
So instead of the court coming down on the whoever who screwed things up, the court screws the victim.
AGAIN!

WTF is wrong with ppl?  If he had wanted to hit someone, why didn’t he pick a fight with another bodybuilder?  At least that would have been one hell of a challenge.

Take a look at this.

Bodybuilder ‘who beat girlfriend black and blue’ walks free from court when she fails to give evidence (because blundering CPS told her wrong time to appear)

Harriet Atkinson, 22, was wrongly told to attend court in the afternoon for the morning trial of fitness trainer Lewis Rookyard

Magistrates thought it would be unfair to the accused to reschedule, so dropped the case because she failed to turn up

By Martin Robinson

A young woman whose boyfriend allegedly beat her ‘black and blue’ says she has been denied justice after he walked free from court because of a Crown Prosecution Service blunder.

Harriet Atkinson, 22, was wrongly told to attend court in the afternoon for the trial of fitness trainer Lewis Rookyard who denied a charge of assault by beating.

But unknown to her, the trial where she was due to give evidence against her former lover had been fixed to start in the morning at South East Suffolk magistrates court in Ipswich.

Officials realised she had been given the wrong time when she did not appear at 10am and a police car was sent to pick her up.

The prosecutor applied for the case to be postponed for 30 minutes, pointing out that Miss Atkinson was on her way and was in no way to blame.

But magistrates rejected the application and dismissed the case due to her non-attendance.

Miss Atkinson, who works in the fashion industry, said: ‘It was the fault of the CPS that I was given the wrong time for the trial to start - but it was just a case of human error which I can understand.

‘What I am really angry about is that the magistrates threw the case out even when they were told that I was not at fault for being given the wrong time and I was on my way.

HERE FOR THE PHOTOS AND MORE TO READ

Posted by peiper     on 10/29/2012 at 11:17 AM   
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