Daughter of WWII pilot convicted of assault... reprimanding teenager who 'vandalised war memorial'

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | July 10, 2008 | Luke Salkeld

[Stoat]

The daughter of a Second World War RAF pilot who reprimanded a teenager who she accused of vandalising a war memorial has been convicted of assault

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But Mrs Lake was arrested after giving a boy, whom she believed to be the ringleader, a talking-to and a 'cuff round the ear'.

She tackled him after she saw at least one youth riding a BMX bike through freshly-laid flower beds.

Magistrates heard that when she grabbed his shirt collar, he said: 'That's assault'.

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'I lost my temper in frustration after two years of trying to get something done and immediately the police are after me. It's ridiculous.'
 

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The trial - estimated to have cost taxpayers more than £100,000 - earlier heard how Mrs Lake was surrounded by up to 25 jeering youths by the memorial....
 

She told how the gang surrounded her, pushed her and shouted: 'You can't touch us, we're 15, we can do what the f*** we like.'
 

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Former serviceman Reg Hall, 78, said: 'It's disgusting that the vandalism has been going on at the memorial for eight years and nobody has stopped it.
 

'Julie is a hero for trying to take a stand. We are all proud of her.'

[BigCinBigD]

England is finished.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

Slingshot and capsicum paintballs or lead fishing weights depending on your need.

Cheap, disposable and silent, and if you shoot from cover no one will be the wiser.

[Stoat]

Somewhere Churchill weeps

Indeed....Sir Winston has not been treated very well lately, btw.

Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus ( pandering to a P.C. agenda)

Great Britain Fury at Churchill statue (Former PM and beloved hero is in a straightjacket)

[Stoat]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

Slingshot and capsicum paintballs or lead fishing weights depending on your need.

Cheap, disposable and silent, and if you shoot from cover no one will be the wiser.

Excellent plan, with innumerable worthy applications......

UK Plans to clear undergrowth from gay sex spot branded discriminatory

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

Slingshot and capsicum paintballs or lead fishing weights depending on your need.

Cheap, disposable and silent, and if you shoot from cover no one will be the wiser.

[Tex Pete]

Just a WAG, but I would guess these are muslim kids desecrating a memorial which includes a cross.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Indeed.

And maybe someone with a good resistance to poison ivy could gather up a mess and start planting it in those fairy filled pestholes and give them something else to whine about.

There's always options if one just stands back and analyzes the situation.

[airborne]

With stories like this a daily occurrence in England, can the end of the Empire be far behind?

[Ukiapah Heep]

WTF? Brave of these little turds and the PC ratbastards that promoted such disrespect to come out of their holes and do this only after most WW2 Vets are too old to give 'em the beating they deserve.

[isrul]

England is nothing but a cesspool filled with all manner of bacteria. Barring the execution of 90% of its leaders, The place needs to be irradiated.

[freekitty]

These are crazy people. What that woman did was the right thing.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I, too, was wondering if these punks were mooselimbs.

[Captain Rhino]

I imagine Ms. Lake realizes now that the first thing she should have done before ever involving the police is get a digital camera with a date stamp and photograph the damage and the perpetrators (preferably in the act in the same frame). A video with sound would be even better. That would end any dispute about their upstanding characters.

[sergeantdave]

Where are the British men to correct this travesty?

[Stoat]

England is finished.

 

By saying this I don't mean to imply that all is rosy in the UK, but to be fair there have been a few things happening lately which may provide cause for some optimism.

Cameron hails by-election victory (MORE great news for Conservatives in the UK)

(BNP beats Labour in important recent election)

Ken's partner axed as Boris Johnson purges City Hall 'wimmin'(London Mayor Update)

But in a drive against political correctness, Mr Johnson also decided to scrap the post of "women's adviser", held by Labour activist Anni Marjoram.

Others whose jobs were deleted were Mr Livingstone's Left-wing cultural and events adviser, Jude Woodward, his planning chief Eleanor Young and his "senior policy adviser on the creative industries" Emma St Giles.

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Ms Woodward is the most contentious of the five as she is a member of Socialist Action, the secretive far-Left group seen as having run City Hall for the past eight years.

But in a drive against political correctness, Mr Johnson also decided to scrap the post of "women's adviser", held by Labour activist Anni Marjoram.

Others whose jobs were deleted were Mr Livingstone's Left-wing cultural and events adviser, Jude Woodward, his planning chief Eleanor Young and his "senior policy adviser on the creative industries" Emma St Giles.

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Ms Woodward is the most contentious of the five as she is a member of Socialist Action, the secretive far-Left group seen as having run City Hall for the past eight years.

[Chode]

disgusting. england has gone down the tubes... i fart in their general direction.

[CholeraJoe]

[Stoat]

Where are the British men to correct this travesty?

Sadly, it 'appears' that Mrs. Lake's husband remained in the car during this series of events.  From the Bristol Evening Post:

A Bristol woman who confronted two youths over vandalism to a war memorial has told a court of her shock that she ended up locked in a police cell for three hours, accused of assault.

The 50-year-old told the court yesterday that for more than two years she and her husband Peter would often clear rubbish from around the memorial, which she said was continually vandalised.

On December 11 they were driving past the memorial.

She said: "I saw four youths on BMX bikes circling the exterior monument garden at some speed through the flower beds.

"I recognised faces but did not know their names. I asked my husband to stop the car."

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No mention is made of the husband thereafter, and all statements pertaining to the incident are in the form of first-person singular....never "my husband and I",only "I".

From this it "appears" that Mr. Lake remained in the car.

[Dominnae]

They can't take the law into their own hands, yet their "Police" are hog-tied neutered by feel-good PC laws and regulations. They fared a lot better than if I had been there as well.

[Chode]

thank you... 8^)

[B4Ranch]

>As soon as vigilantism starts, it will be happening all over Britain.<

That’s one subject that will be censored from UK media.