Wilcox Arrested on Suspicion of Perverting Course of Justice

[mk1]

Way to go for going waaaaaayyyyyyyy off topic Reaper.

The best example of this tunnel vision was on Newsnight on Friday night. They had talking heads from the main Parties in to discuss the local election result. The UKIP woman was first up and her opening sentence was that The EU was the cause of all the UK problems!

Anyway back to Angie and (hopefully) her opening 'sentence'...................

[fred c]

Can i use my phone in here

[The Great Dictator]

Reaper, you need to stay off the wacky baccy otherwise your Tory employers might sack you.

How can you describe local Tories of being some sort of disease there is only 3 of them !

They all get the same allowances which is about £88 a week after tax for taking abuse from numpties like you.

Wake up and stop smelling the Tip-ex 

[steveL]

What mystifies me is the degree of denial going on. Wilcox has just been voted onto the Finance and Policy Committee, the main governing committee of the council and the equivalent of the old Cabinet.

Mind you, that's not quite as surreal as Cranney being voted onto the Tees Valley Community Foundation – Grant Giving Panel

That's just plain scary . . .

[steveL]

Tories?......One of them is hardly ever there, one is there but doesn't know it and the last one is there but appears to be sitting on the wrong side of the chamber.

[steveL]

Here's a weird fact: a sitting councillor is allowed to serve a jail sentence and still retain their council seat unless the sentence exceeds 3 months . . . bet it makes councillor ward surgeries interesting 

[fred c]

Here's a weird fact: a sitting councillor is allowed to serve a jail sentence and still retain their council seat unless the sentence exceeds 3 months

I don`t see a resignation any time soon, & if the 3 month rule is known by "The Mob", i don`t expect any resignations at all............ scruples, morals, integrity, shame... words that aren`t in "The Mobs" Dictionary.

But then again they do exist in a different dimension to the rest of us 

You couldn`t make this lot up.

Wilcox on the Finance and Policy Committe ........

Cranney on the Tees Valley Community Foundation – Grant Giving Panel......

Maybe Mr Mitchell can work it out for

[mk1]

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/sentencing_manual/perverting_the_course_of_justice/


Date Produced: 1 July 2011
Title: Administration of Justice
Offence: Perverting the Course of Justice
Legislation: Common law
Mode of Trial: Indictable only
Statutory Limitations & Maximum Penalty: At large
Sentencing Range: 4 months to 36 months

Aggravating & Mitigating Factors
Nature and number of offences
Whether premeditated or spontaneous
Degree of persistence
Arrest of innocent person
Innocent person maliciously targeted
Any impact upon prosecution
Relevant Sentencing Guidelines
R v Tunney [2007] 1 Cr. App. R. (S) 91
The sentence appropriate for perverting the course of justice essentially depends on three matters:

the seriousness of the substantive offence to which the perverting of the course of justice related;
the degree of persistence; and
the effect of the attempt to pervert the course of justice on the course of justice itself.
Relevant Sentencing Case Law
General sentencing brackets summarised in Archbold at 28-28 as follows:

threatening or interfering with witnesses - 4 months to 24 months
concealing evidence - 4 months to 18 months, possibly longer if serious crime
false allegation of crime resulting in arrest of innocent person - 4 to 12 months
Recent Decisions reported in Current Sentencing Practice reported at B 8-2.3 divided into: interference with prosecution witness; threatening or intimidating witness; making false allegation of crime; concealing evidence; interfering with jurors; false information in mitigation.

AG's Ref (No. 1 of 1990) (John Cameron Atkinson) (1990-1991) 12 Cr. App. R. (S.) 245
Sentence should normally be consecutive to substantive offence.

AG's Ref (No 35 of 2009) (R v Binsteed) [2010] 1 Cr. App. R. (S.) 61
Sentences of imprisonment should not normally be suspended.

[Stranger in a Strange ...]

Angie Wilcox and the story about failing to pay the cleaner minimum wage made it into the current issue of Private Eye in the Rotten Boroughs section. 

[steveL]

for the third time,too.

Doing her bit to put 'Hartlepool on the map'

[fred c]

With performances such as this............. Alaister Rae needs to keep on his toes otherwise HBC could be getting a "New Head" of PR

[Stevef]

Wonder if Cllr Hall would be interested In the job?

[Stranger in a Strange ...]

I was googling some local news and found this site more helpful than the Mail.

[misinformed]

I think this site is great pity the ones who need to take note .. are choosing to swan around in there ivory towers as though all is well....... talk about rose coloured glasses...

[steveL]

We're hearing that the management committee of Manor Residents have all received a letter from a solicitor for non payment of debts. He is holding them all personally accountable for them.

Looks like a brown trousers day....