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Exceedingly good cakes pit tramps against the CPS

1/29/2014

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Here is a ridiculous story from the BBC News website that wound me up enough to take to my keyboard. Please read it and make your own mind up whether the Crown Prosecution Service needs a rebuke on wasting public money.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25945052

The prosecution of three homeless blokes for removing £33 worth of discarded food from waste bins behind the Iceland store in Kentish Town just beggars belief.  

I can’t begin to comprehend what is in the public interest in charging these vagrants and the action doesn’t even appear to be supported by the retailer whose waste was being, very effectively, recycled (eaten in this case).

Given that the nofixedaboders were charged in October, I presume they have been in police custody ever since – I don’t suppose bail was a realistic option! Now I may be clutching at straws but the only positive aspect to this whole fiasco that I can see is that Paul, William and Jason have been well homed and well fed at her majesty’s pleasure for a few months. And if they go to jail, the public purse will be funding their ongoing housing and dietary requirements. Would that be rough justice or a weird kind of karma?

Doubtless there are some unreported aspects to this case, who knows, maybe the chaps were running some kind of elaborate scam. Maybe they littered the street with discarded food packaging in their fervent desire to eat - without taking into account the sensibilities of the local residents. Perhaps, and much more likely, the attending officers were addressed as plebs by the ‘offenders’; maybe the fellas were more verbally, or even physically, abusive. I have to admit that if I was reduced to rummaging through bins to find something to eat; I’d be inclined to tell an arresting officer to xucx off!

The haul of booty apparently included Mr Kipling cakes; now I appreciate that they are exceedingly good but I’d have to draw the line at them being worth a criminal record.   

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