A sad, pathetic little man runs up a £9,000 bill on chatlines, using a stolen sim card.
The owner of the card (ie the victom of the crime) gets a 300-page payment demand.
The man is ordered to pay back just £500.
The owner, a hardworking businesswoman, is left to find the rest, risking financial ruin.
The district judge apologises, saying full compensation is impossible because the law "requires" the court to consider the OFFENDER'S means.
Sometimes comment is unecessary. The facts speak perferctly clearly for themselves.
Yes, the law is truly an ass.
This story comes to you, not from Cloud Cuckoo Land, but from Birkenhead Magisatrates' Court.
* Taxpayers' money is being wasted in the distant Celtic outpost of Caernarvon as council officials investigate complaints about the smell of smoke from a couple's 20-a-day cigarette habit allegedly invading the obviously ultra sensative nostrils of their next door neighbours (who could seemingly be gainfully employed as sniffer dogs).
Meanwhile, the cash would be better spent putting a roof on the town's castle. I'm talking health and safety here.....
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