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Victim of false rape claim must pay £12,500 for bed and board in jail
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 01/01/2008 11:15:53 AM PST by UKrepublican

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1 posted on 01/01/2008 11:15:55 AM PST by UKrepublican
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2 posted on 01/01/2008 11:16:06 AM PST by UKrepublican
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To: UKrepublican

This is one more of a growing number of posts about once-great Britain that make me think this is the most f*’d up country in the Western World.


3 posted on 01/01/2008 11:19:05 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: UKrepublican

The government should have tried to collect the woman first. The falsely accused man could sue her in civil court. The woman probably has no assets, so it will come to nothing. I also thought it interesting that the newspaper never gives the name of the woman. Why the protection of a criminal. Is she going to be charged with anything?


4 posted on 01/01/2008 11:24:07 AM PST by Free State Four
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To: UKrepublican

at first I thought this was going to be a story about the accuser being ordered to pay the cost but then I realized it was Britain.


5 posted on 01/01/2008 11:24:23 AM PST by Brilliant
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What about the woman? Did she go to jail? Get fined? Why aren’t they making her pay this?


6 posted on 01/01/2008 11:25:00 AM PST by CindyDawg (.)
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To: UKrepublican
Unbelievable
7 posted on 01/01/2008 11:25:33 AM PST by 2111USMC (www.Fred08.com)
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To: samtheman

And as soon as they get 12 more muslims there, it won’t even be able to be called part of the “Western World”.


8 posted on 01/01/2008 11:25:36 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: UKrepublican
She picked him out of an identity parade
Almost sounds like a happy occasion.
9 posted on 01/01/2008 11:25:50 AM PST by Krankor (kROGER)
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To: UKrepublican

The woman was a serial accuser? What the hell was his lawyer doing the whole time to have that slip past him/her?


10 posted on 01/01/2008 11:26:13 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Hey Iowans: the only opinions that matter are the ones in the room voting January 3rd.)
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To: UKrepublican
The guy doing the assessing could be at some risk of mayhem should he do this to a fellow more inclined to defend himself and his honor.

Just a matter of time.

11 posted on 01/01/2008 11:26:49 AM PST by muawiyah
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The practice of charging "bed and breakfast" was challenged in 2007 by the Bridgewater Three, the men wrongly convicted of murdering newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater in 1978, but the principle was upheld by the House of Lords.

For those who might not realize it, the upper house of Parliament, the House of Lords, used to be independent of the Commons, and while it had far less power, it did have a certain amount of power to block or delay bad legislation.

Tony Blair basically eviscerated the House of Lords during his time in office, partly because they tried to block his bill that lowered the age of consent for homosexual acts with minors, and partly because Labour has always hated the idea of a hereditary peerage.

So, this House of Lords that denied relief from this unjust procedure was basically Tony Blair's House of Lords, appointed mostly from former Labour politicians and stooges. In other words, it's socialism all the way down now in England, with no moderating body at all. The Queen, of course, must do as she is told, and has no power to moderate anything or even openly complain about it, or she would be out of a job.

12 posted on 01/01/2008 11:27:18 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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If we are headed to a totalitarian bureaucratic world government...then the only thing that would make it halfway tolerable would be a "rip-cord" safety valve of a "common-sense court."

Kind of like a "instant replay review".

At any level of court action for silliness other than murder or such, each human being gets a single "bullsh!t" marker which trumps all.

When you pull it, you automatically get a 100 person jury of your peers who can vote to make you right in just this situation. Once you've used them all, you're out for a lifetime (no habitual appealers.)

But you should save them for bigtime abuses of bureaucracy like this.

13 posted on 01/01/2008 11:27:35 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: samtheman

Agreed.


14 posted on 01/01/2008 11:27:58 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
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To: Free State Four

He might want to leave well enough alone though. He might get charged for her bed and board too.


15 posted on 01/01/2008 11:29:43 AM PST by CindyDawg (.)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

There are probably 12 new muzzies in britain every second. Or something like that.


16 posted on 01/01/2008 11:30:20 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: samtheman
Yeah, this is some really weird sh*t.
17 posted on 01/01/2008 11:34:01 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: UKrepublican

WTF?!

Looks to me like they’re desperate to punish him no matter what.


18 posted on 01/01/2008 11:34:57 AM PST by forkinsocket
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To: Free Vulcan

“The woman was a serial accuser? What the hell was his lawyer doing the whole time to have that slip past him/her?”

From the article:

“She kept changing her name and moving around, so police forces never realised they were dealing with the same woman.”


19 posted on 01/01/2008 11:35:59 AM PST by UKTory
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To: UKTory

Yep, I sure missed that one.


20 posted on 01/01/2008 11:40:44 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Hey Iowans: the only opinions that matter are the ones in the room voting January 3rd.)
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