Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

Slander, defamation of character, etc. You sure you can't sue for these things if not charged?
So you are saying that if I go to hospital, and then I tell the media that a police officer tried to prevent me from using that hospital on the grounds that I was a student, protester, gender or ethnicity, etc, and as a result I nearly died. The IPCC then look into this and decided that my claim was entirely fictitious.
Then there is nothing the police could do? I don't believe that to be the case.

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

In fairness, whilst the Met cannot sue for libel named police officers could.

Why has it taken the police so long to charge this chap and why now, before any publication of the IPCC report?

Strange timings.

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

You can be charged with wasting police time, so stop the nonsense fellas. You can bend over backwards to defend the met all you like, but I think everyone can see there is something not quite right with what we've been told so far.
It may have a perfectly valid explanation that doesn't incriminate the met, but still I believe there is more to this case.

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

True, but there has been no suggestion in this thread of any 'named' officers. The statement made was "surely the police are going to charge her for slander". Having been shown to have a basic misunderstanding of how the laws of defamation work, Sparkie's argument has segued thus:

See what he did there?

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

I believe oops: that the Met have many thousands of hours of footage to wade through and once they have sufficient evidence of a particular person committing an offence the files goes to the CPS for an OK to charge.

With that amount of footage, the protestors tending to cover up faces so necessitating ID from various sources and angles it takes time to come up with the goods.

This lot aren't the first and they won't be the last. :)

Yes you can be charged with wasting Police time for making a false complaint, as the last person who complained about me found out :D, but the main question is whether it is in the public interest to proceed with charges. In this occasion where the mother is obviously upset and made some comments I wouldn't say dragging her through the courts is necessary or proportionate.

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

Hey, that's not on! The police are heavy handed if they act and covering something if they don't. They are not allowed under any circumstances to act in a proportionate manner. Please now go to room 101 for 're-education'. ;)

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

I'll borrow some of Lew's rats to chew my face off for daring to suggest anything other than summary execution for Mrs Meadows. :(

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

Will that be £9K per year, or will you throw it in for free like the way your generation had it?

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

/awaits clarification

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

Yes Derek, I'm well aware of the processes and challenges involved.

What I'm questioning is the timing in relation to Meadows being charged.

The IPCC investigation is ongoing and indeed the call for witnesses to the incident is still active on their site.

It strikes me that the timings of his being charged are somewhat strange.

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

Are you suggesting that the Police should sit on any evidence they have just because Alfie has made a complaint against them?

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

No, that's not what I'm suggesting. That said, it wouldn't be a first were they to do so and it's certainly an avenue / option open to them in this scenario.

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

I think it relates to tuition fees.

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

Yes, I was beginning to suspect that. As it simply ignores all the points that are currently 'live' in this thread I'm thinking I'm just going to ignore it in return.

Re: Students Rioting in London.
 

If they did then we really wouldn't have enough prisons to take them all.:D