Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I was listening to R5 this morning discussing the chavs jailed for mere months for stabbing to death a lad in Manchester (a public school boy, as it happens). One of the convicted yoof filmed himself in the court bogs, gloating, and uploaded it and sent it to the dead boy's mum. She sent the footage to the judge wo promptly ignored it. Friends of the accused have been sending gloating messages to the dead boy's sister. And yet the process went out of its way to protect the accused, imply the victim contributed to his demise through negligence, etc. Disgraceful. Normally a thread would have been posted on here about this by people now banned .....probably best to tuck this comment in here.
I was surrounded by chavs on bikes as I rode on my Brompton to the supermarket in Faversham a few months ago. I just stared them out and they buggered off. My rule is say nothing to scum (put them on ignore, if you will). I suspect I may well have availed myself of something swingable in that supermarket, though. There would be no chance any of the little ****ers could claim they were the innocent party. On a bike in a supermarket. Fair game for a surprise up-ending, I would have thought.
He did go to the private Manchester Grammar school, but he'd won a scholarship. The family are also complaining of the way they were treated at the court having to sit where the defendants were, so being exposed to the ridicule, from them.
Generally witnesses have their own rooms in Crown courts, but the family are treated just like any other members of the public.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-49275491