A travesty of justice

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s...roin-stash-down-toilet-jailed-86908-21129976/

The guy should be praised for his actions not banged up, just goes to show what a screwed up justice system we have.

 

Dear me! That is just soo screwy it's not true! A friend of mine was moved into a bungalow because her husband couldn't manage the stairs anymore. The lad next door was a dealer and a lot of his clients were kids of 12 and 13. She reported him to the police a dozen times. They eventually set up surveillance and months later, used her house to set up a sting operation which ended with him being taken into custody. Next day he was released on bail and came straight round to my friend and her husband and threatened to kill them if they testified against him! They ended up having to be moved in the dead of night to a secret location and no-one was allowed to know where they were for about 3 months until he was banged up. They did get a nicer place out of it but they thought they were going to lose all their friends. It was the most stressful experience I have ever seen anyone go through. They even had the private number of the police station in case anything happened.

A year later, she got cancer and I'm not at all convinced it wasn't connected with that stress.

 

Im Curious to know what happened to the Drug Dealer, Shouldn't he have got time

Sorry to hear about your friend's Daisees, No wonder we are scared to come forward as a witness

 

There are two sides to every story, and the media invariably only reports on the version that sells the most papers.

Another way to look at this is like this: Maybe the police had been building a case against the dealer. They might have been desperate to nail him, but knowing how pathetic the courts can be, maybe they wanted to make sure they had a watertight case before submitting it to the CPS. Then someone comes along, prevents a deal from taking place, destroys the evidence, and creates a plausible defence for the dealer who claims that some pyscho stormed his house and framed him.

I agree that dealers are scum, but this blokes way of dealing with the situation was far from ideal. It would have been better if he'd had a 'quiet word' with the dealer in some secluded but public place.

 

Ah yes. The age old motoring offence line. Oddly enough, I've never actually had any hassle from the police, ever, when driving. But that might be because I stick to the law

Coppers are not as bad as we like to think. Often their hands are tied by the courts, and by people jeopardising cases by taking the law into their own hands.

 

You get good cops and bad cops, just like you get good and bad people in all walks of life. They're only human and subject to the same weaknesses as the rest of us. I know that when the local oiks stole our off road motorbike from the front of the road the cops who came out (within minutes) were great, driving around for ages searching and called the next day to update us.They're under pressure like all other public sector workers-targets to meet and endless paperwork.

I've not been stopped for a motoring offence either, but then I don't speed (much...)