Police confiscated my 150 year old muzzle loader.

[Spiggy]

Spiggy;

Good luck. Hope it works out well for you.

Mezzer

Cheers, Mezzer. Thanks for that . Spiggy.

[Countryman]

Well good luck to you.

There is a lot of information on that link I sent you regarding the blank firers suitability to discharge CS. A happy outcome amid the Trolls.

The antique wall piece should be an embarrassment to the police.

I hope you go to the press after you are discharged and talk about how much public money has been wasted here to get nowhere.

[Spiggy]

Thanks, everyone, for all your responses, especially the recent ones. I must admit to floundering a tad of late, largely due to the complexity of the case, the obfuscation of the CPS, compounded by their incessant changes to the charges, and their failure to present to the Court a formal indictment ( three times I have now appeared at Court for this latter purpose, only to have the CPS state on each ocassion that their appointed prosecutor had been changed yet again at the very last moment, and that the newbie hadn't had time to study the papers yet ; my God, was the Judge angry about that ! )

Cheers,
Spiggy Topes.

[tackb]

Thanks, everyone, for all your responses, especially the recent ones. I must admit to floundering a tad of late, largely due to the complexity of the case, the obfuscation of the CPS, compounded by their incessant changes to the charges, and their failure to present to the Court a formal indictment ( three times I have now appeared at Court for this latter purpose, only to have the CPS state on each ocassion that their appointed prosecutor had been changed yet again at the very last moment, and that the newbie hadn't had time to study the papers yet ; my God, was the Judge angry about that ! )

Cheers,
Spiggy Topes.

is our world renowned legal system broken ?

[Blackstuff]

Thanks, everyone, for all your responses, especially the recent ones. I must admit to floundering a tad of late, largely due to the complexity of the case, the obfuscation of the CPS, compounded by their incessant changes to the charges, and their failure to present to the Court a formal indictment ( three times I have now appeared at Court for this latter purpose, only to have the CPS state on each ocassion that their appointed prosecutor had been changed yet again at the very last moment, and that the newbie hadn't had time to study the papers yet ; my God, was the Judge angry about that ! )

Cheers,
Spiggy Topes.

Hopefully that will all count in your favour, especially if you're having to travel a way to get to court. Some judges do appear to get just as p1$$ed off with that as a normal person and end up dismissing the case

[Mezzer]

Thanks, everyone, for all your responses, especially the recent ones. I must admit to floundering a tad of late, largely due to the complexity of the case, the obfuscation of the CPS, compounded by their incessant changes to the charges, and their failure to present to the Court a formal indictment ( three times I have now appeared at Court for this latter purpose, only to have the CPS state on each ocassion that their appointed prosecutor had been changed yet again at the very last moment, and that the newbie hadn't had time to study the papers yet ; my God, was the Judge angry about that ! )

Cheers,
Spiggy Topes.

Hopefully that will all count in your favour, especially if you're having to travel a way to get to court. Some judges do appear to get just as p1$$ed off with that as a normal person and end up dismissing the case

Spiggy;

Appears to me that the only entity floundering here is the CPS. The fact that they haven't been able to get their sh*t together on 3 seperate occasions speaks volumes in itself and I fully agree with Blackstuff when he says that there is every chance the judge himself will get p*ssed off with all the mucking about.

Keep your chin up and the very best of luck to you.

Mezzer

[Gaz]

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Pave ... story.html

Posted without comment because I understand the case is being heard this week (possibly even today) at Luton Crown Court.

[saddler]

One of the charges..."possession of a blank"

Straws & clutching comes to mind

[Kungfugerbil]

I realise it's a serious topic, but the way that article was phrased:

"one charge of possessing a blank and another of possessing prohibited ammunition, namely cartridges with a bullet designed to explode on or immediately before impact on Christmas Day last year"

...makes it sound like an incredibly specific charge :)

[Gaz]

The case is now before Luton Crown Court. Seems it was this week, not last week, that it was due to be heard.