Underage pregnancies.

Originally Posted by gruntygiggles

I get quite passionate about things I guess...lol. Don't get me started on immigration, the PC brigade or justice and probabtion in this country.

I was arrested in two years ago for apparently wasting police time. Someone broke into my home while I was in bed (could have been the night before and he was there all night, could have been the morning), but at just gone 6.30am I woke to find an oldish man sitting on my bed. Long story short, nothing bad happened to me aside the sh***ing bricks and some weird attempts by him of clearing any evidence. However, after a 17 hour day going from one police station to another, having photos taken, medical examination (not that I needed it luckily) and a three hour video statement being taken, I was, a week later arrested for apparently fabricating the story as they had found no evidence of a break in or any man being in the house. Funny.....two police men all day taking fingerprints, hair samples, swabbing the toilet etc and they found no evidence of a man? My father came round twice a week, my ex boyfriend came to walk the dogs 3 times a week and I had had a sky engineer in the day before, but no evidence of a man...JOKE!

I had to wait three weeks then to be told the following:-

"We are extremely sorry Cheryl (was very familiar with the DI by this stage) but it seems that the investigation has failed us a little and we have now located the evidence taken from your house. It included a copy of a key that we have determined fitted your back door and some documents of yours dating back a few years with no trace of any fingerprints. We also believe that as your dogs did not bark, the intruder had familiarised himself with them and so, they did not feel the need to alert you. Your neighbours have confirmed that the dogs both always bark at people walking by or knocking the door and so we are convinced of this. It is regretful that we had to arrest you in order to pressure you into giving us more information that we felt you may have been witholding".

I'll never forget that conversation. A few weeks later they got even more evidence but never found anyone.

Doesn't give much confidence does it? They couldn't find the evidence taken from my house, so arrested me.
I did explain that maybe I seemed like I was witholding information because they interviewed me 3 hours after this man had given me 16 250mg ibuprofen and I may not have been totally with it! Again, all I got was an apology.

This country needs sorting out!!! Look at the banks. We need to stop putting 1 person or a board of overpaid directors in charge of things that are so important.

That is frightening and completely confirms to me that we are right to be worried about inadequate policing and being falsely accused - and they say if you've done nothing wrong you've nothing to worry about?! Look at Sally Clarke, Angela Cannings et al I hope you were not too badly affected by that experience because I know I would have ended up a nervous wreck!

Like the woman who got charged with assault the other day because some kids were vandalising something (cant remember what), and she tapped one with a rolled up magazine, and the woman who was charged with criminal damage when she grabbed a kid's bike and threw it out the way when he was wrecking the village war memorial, WTF is wrong with our legal system?!!

Originally Posted by ArtyLady

Like the woman who got charged with assault the other day because some kids were vandalising something (cant remember what), and she tapped one with a rolled up magazine, and the woman who was charged with criminal damage when she grabbed a kid's bike and threw it out the way when he was wrecking the village war memorial, WTF is wrong with our legal system?!!

That's Fu*king ridiculous!

Should've hit them with something harder

[gruntygiggles]

ArtyLady, you have it spot on.......the system is so far gone it's just ridiculous. I'm fine, thanks for asking. Was surrounded by a great family and friends and now it's just a part of my past that's been dealt with and left behind!