Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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https://www.spiritfm.net/news/susse...an-who-coughed-at-police-officer-avoids-jail/
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[News] Our ****ing justice system
- Thread starter Wrong-Direction
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Weststander
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A disgraceful non-sentence for a disgusting person.
No consistency, others doing that and spitting at emergency workers in the last month have been jailed.
I hope Sussex Police appeal.
No consistency, others doing that and spitting at emergency workers in the last month have been jailed.
I hope Sussex Police appeal.
Biscuit Barrel
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Disagree. He should be spending all 18 weeks of the sentence behind bars IMO.
Police officers are working very hard to keep people safe during this pandemic. Anyone who coughs in their face and say that they want to infect them and their family with the virus, should be banged up.
Putting people in prison during a pandemic unless they havent murdered someone, or something close to that degree, is like begging for jailed people to fill a significant part of the NHS capacity.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
But letting someone off lightly sends a message out that the law won't do much about that kind of awful behaviour.
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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I think on balance it's probably correct even though the person is an arse-hole.
Even under these times coughing on someone doesn't warrant putting more pressure on the justice and prison systems.
He's got a criminal record and a fine and his name is name is in the Daily Mail. He won't do it again.
Algernon
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Surely there should be some middle ground in these testing times.
Don't even take him to Court.
Just kick his dirty mouth in.
Don't even take him to Court.
Just kick his dirty mouth in.
Weststander
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Or a community service order, engaged in the disposal of used PPE waste.
That might focus his brain cell.
Norman Potting
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If he told the police he had covid 19,he was trying to give the policeman and his family a very dangerous disease . He should at least have been done for GBH or maybe attempted murder ?
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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Which is exactly why sentence's should be made on how angry it makes people! Time for change
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LamieRobertson
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Oh dear....I weals with you until that last point....trial by social media....no ta......but i dont agree with the guy not getting jail time....potentially passing on something ...jail i think...having said all that ..maybe you are on a windup or had too much afternoon sherry
Are you being serious ?He was claiming to have a deadly disease and wished to give it to Policeman and his family by coughing virus over him. You can`t die of verbal assault, 18000 in our country have died from coronavirus.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Unfortunately i think he was
Weststander
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Matt Webb, chair of Sussex Police Federation, said:
“Officers have been placed in an impossible position of trying to uphold hastily drawn-up legislation designed to protect the public and the NHS, in addition to their day-to-day business.
“When they are attacked in this way for simply doing their job, and are not supported by the judicial system, it is a disgrace.
“What sort of message does this send to people like Dangerfield who make police officers fear for the fact that they may be infected with this virus, which has killed thousands of people in this country alone?
“The Police Federation has been fighting for a long time to get assaults of this nature recognised as the serious offences that they are. An attack on a police officer is an attack on society.”
Despite sentencing guidelines and laws to bring in tougher sentences, Insp Webb said “the courts continue to treat these assaults as low level and hand out derisory sentences”.
He added: “Any assault on an Emergency Service worker should attract a custodial sentence and in the current climate especially to not do so is flabbergasting.”
I’m with them. Deliberately spitting or coughing on emergency workers, pre and during covid-19 times, is a disgusting act. Deserving of a deterrent and punishment sentence that will tangibly affect the life of the perpetrator.
“Officers have been placed in an impossible position of trying to uphold hastily drawn-up legislation designed to protect the public and the NHS, in addition to their day-to-day business.
“When they are attacked in this way for simply doing their job, and are not supported by the judicial system, it is a disgrace.
“What sort of message does this send to people like Dangerfield who make police officers fear for the fact that they may be infected with this virus, which has killed thousands of people in this country alone?
“The Police Federation has been fighting for a long time to get assaults of this nature recognised as the serious offences that they are. An attack on a police officer is an attack on society.”
Despite sentencing guidelines and laws to bring in tougher sentences, Insp Webb said “the courts continue to treat these assaults as low level and hand out derisory sentences”.
He added: “Any assault on an Emergency Service worker should attract a custodial sentence and in the current climate especially to not do so is flabbergasting.”
I’m with them. Deliberately spitting or coughing on emergency workers, pre and during covid-19 times, is a disgusting act. Deserving of a deterrent and punishment sentence that will tangibly affect the life of the perpetrator.
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
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I agree with you. Paul Dacre it was, when editor of the Daily Mail, who said that the perfect front page headline should make people angry or frightened but preferably both. Threads like this seem intended to do something similar. "Let's press a few buttons and make people absolutely FURIOUS." It almost seems manipulative, like the catcalls of a populist politician.
As it happens, the sentence does seem a little mild to me, but I don't know the circumstances and I'll let the experts judge. I'm not one of them.
Every decent human being would surely agree with Matt Webbs remarks !!