Law -
True Cases 5
Labour
councillor Gregory Vincent, who worked as former
sports minister Tony Banks’ agent at the
last election, spent hours trawling for pictures
of young girls being abused. One showed a naked
ten-year-old being assaulted as she wore a dog
collar and had her hands tied behind her back and
fixed to a beam. Vincent built up a library of
internet video clips over six months. The victims
were as young as eight. But Judge Christopher
Hardy decided to go easy on the dad-of-one after
hearing he committed his crimes because he was
depressed and bored. The judge told him,
“This was very unpleasant material but by no
means the worst kind the courts see from time to
time. The possession of this material is the
result, as you put it, of depression and boredom
rather than perversion.”
Vincent, who was also a school governor, was
given a two-year community rehabilitation order.
Southwark Crown Court in London heard he had lost
his £24,000-a-year job as adminstrator at the
University of London. He had also resigned as a
councillor and is no longer a school governor.
The court heard he trawled the internet from his
office at the university, using the log-on Heebee
Jeebee in a bid to disguise his past-time. But he
was rumbled by a specialist team of Scotland Yard
officers who used sophisticated software to track
down paedophiles. When he realised police were on
to him, Vincent deleted all his files to cover
his tracks but officers were still able to
retrieve them.
Three
teenage boys were told off by police for not
having tax and insurance for their go-kart which
they had made themselves out of bits of wood and
old trolley wheels. Staffordshire Police are
obviously unaware that neither is required for a
non-motorised vehicle.
Two
prison officers who claimed they were traumatised
by working with sex offenders won compensation
jointly totalling about £200,000.
A
farmer invaded by travellers, was threatened with
prosecution by the local council for having an
un-licenced caravan site.
A
solicitor won £750 after the organisers of a
Scrabble tournament in Folkestone, Kent, started
a game without him. He had been in the toilet at
the time.
A
Newcastle Crown Court jury convicted a man of
shoplifting after he stole a 92p tin of spaghetti
bolognese from a supermarket - at a cost to the
taxpayer of around £8,500. Blyth Valley Labour
MP Ronnie Campbell said, "The thousands it
has cost the taxpayer makes it laughable, but the
unfunny thing is taxpayers having to pick up the
bill. This case highlights the stupidity of the
law the way it stands."
A
driver who left his engine ticking over while he
nipped into his house for something, was fined
£30 by police who said it was illegal and he was
blocking a drive - his own.
A
12-year-old boy was finally sentenced at Cardiff
Youth Court to six months in custody. He had
previously appeared in court more than 150 times.
He pleaded guilty to breaking previous bail
conditions and allowing himself to be carried in
a stolen vehicle. He had previously been
convicted by magistrates of burgling a
15-year-old schoolgirl's home after he tricked
his way into her home, where he stole the keys to
the family car. The youngster later returned to
the house and took the car from the drive of the
house. He was placed under a supervision order
for three years for that offence and more than 20
others including taking cars.
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