International Law

Tomato to the cause

By John Hirst

Following on from this, it did take me exactly an hour to walk to Priory Road police station getting there at 2.05pm. Detective Constable Gooder greeted me in reception and was pleased that I was punctual. He said that my solicitor had phoned to say he would be there in a few minutes. He was 5 minutes late arriving at 2.20pm! Jeff Toolman spent about 5 minutes with the police getting the gist of the alleged racist material on my blog, and then the police left the room and I was then for the first time able to see what all the fuss was about. See my original post here. And plod update here.

The post which had led the police to investigate me is here. But, nothing to do with the original complaint, the police also questioned me in relation to this post.

In relation to the first it was suggested that I might be trying to stir up racial hatred, and in the second case that I was being offensive and it is immaterial whatever my intent if racial hatred is actually stirred up and somebody is offended by what I have written.

I got the impression that the police were just going through the motions because somebody had complained. And, the police said that the file would be sent off to the Crown Prosecution Service to see if I am to be charged. My solicitor said that they wouldn't dare because it would turn me into a martyr.

At least I managed to get my solicitor to give me a lift home. However, I did leave my woolly hat and gloves on some car in the car park after I came out and rolled my first fag since the third degree.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on January 21, 2009 (boomark / email).