Are UK police idiots?

Telegraph:

Two fathers have condemned the criminal justice system after they were arrested and thrown into a police cell for trying to prevent a fight involving a gang of youths.

Christopher Dale, 38, and Arthur Parkes, 29, decided to intervene when they heard that a group of boys planned to catch and beat up another youth.

They made a citizen’s arrest of the two ring leaders, aged 12 and 14, and held them while Mr Dale’s wife called the police.

But when officers arrived it was the men who were handcuffed and led away after the boys accused them of assault.

What followed was a nine month “nightmare” in which the men faced losing everything as the Crime Prosecution Service refused to drop the case.

Their ordeal only ended in court when a magistrate finally decided there was no case to answer, “It has been an absolute nightmare,” said Mr Dale yesterday, an engineer who fits fire alarms and a trained pilot.

...

CPS district crown prosecutor Peter McNaught said: “We considered this case very carefully. However, in all the circumstances, we consider that it was in the public interest to bring this case.”


The prosecutor appears no brighter than the police. It seems pretty clear that the police in the UK do not want citizens to resist the acts of criminals nor stop them. They may be the most irrational police force in the world. Other reports indicate that because of a failure of the UK to build adequate prisons, there will be more thugs and criminals on the street. The UK needs to get serious about fighting crime and quit fighting victims.

Dymphna at Gates of Vienna has more on the UK as a failed state.

Comments

  1. Dymphna11:05 PM

    Thanks for this story. I cut and pasted it with my earlier Daily Mail story about the lack of room in UK jails...

    Ironic that they want Lionheart to come back to the UK to serve 7 years for "hate speech" in his blog. That was after being trashed, threatened and losing his flat.
    Lion Heart.

    You might be interested in the recordings he made with the Hate Crimes Unit in Bedfordshire.

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