Court Case Dropped

[pip1968 2,490]

made up for you gaz its not nice having things like that hanging over you head

[gnasher16 29,834]

As usual its the shyster lawyers who come out on top.............good result on a personal level though well in

[NEWKID 26,485]

Good result Gaz, seems they'll try anything these days to make a case...

[Giro 2,648]

Thats good news..

 

lot of folk would of buckled...

 

surprized the CPS even let it go to court..

[troter58 1,711]

nice result gaz

[bird 9,628]

sound that mate

[derekbrown 176]

For those that read my post back in February about being taken in for police questioning over a suspected lamping incident, we have just had the charges dropped in court.

We attended last Friday and it was adjourned for 7 days due to lack of evidence. Today the case was dropped.

They saw us walking off a public footpath with lamps and dogs. No game had been run or caught.

They tried to throw the book at us and went for charges of "section 1 of the hunting act 2004" and also a separate charge under the dangerous dogs act for having out of control dogs.

Ludicrous considering the dogs didn't come off the leads.

We think they were just hoping we would submit an early guilty plea. Which of course we did not.

Result in my book. Roll on the season

Fair play to you lad.just goes to show how stupid and pointless the hunting act is.

Edited June 9, 2013 by derekbrown

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Thanks everyone.

 

Giro - We were all amazed that it made it to court.

 

It happened 28th Feb, first court date was 31st May (last Friday) and they still adjourned it to give the police 7 more days to "find some evidence".

 

And then yesterday when they finally realised that it had to be dropped the prosecution said "unfortunately your honour the arresting officers acted too quickly bringing the defendants to court in this instance and I am afraid there is not enough evidence to proceed". FFS how about you could of waited 12 months and still found nothing.

 

Bell ends

[baw 4,360]

I got done in pursuit of conies. On land were the was none we were 14. Lol.

The brick beat you too it eh

[arcticgun 4,548]

well done fella's about time someone stood up to em in court, they take it for granted at magistrate level that you will simply roll over and plead to charges or lesser charges and come away with a fine thats cheaper than solicitors fees and most see this offer a s a quick cheap way out, better to fight em and save that for the day ya really need it imho, the too used to assumming prior guilt are the plods.

[baw 4,360]

Unless your caught with the hare in your hand on the land, admit nothing. It's down to them to prove you've done wrong.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

well done fella's about time someone stood up to em in court, they take it for granted at magistrate level that you will simply roll over and plead to charges or lesser charges and come away with a fine thats cheaper than solicitors fees and most see this offer a s a quick cheap way out, better to fight em and save that for the day ya really need it imho, the too used to assumming prior guilt are the plods.

Luckily the lads I was with had the same mind set. "They can get f****d if they think we are throwing a guilty plea for simplicity"

[scothunter 12,609]

no greater feeling than walking out of court,with a not proven or admonished although the cops do hold a grudge when that happens lol

[desertbred 5,490]

Unless your caught with the hare in your hand on the land, admit nothing. It's down to them to prove you've done wrong.

even with it in your hand it could have been found dead in the hedge row just never admit f**k all just let them prove everything , they will embelish it anyway so why give them an easy life/

[reaper1064 285]

Well done mate. At least you've got it out of the way.