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Britain
Rare outbreak of judicial sanity in the UK
2007-01-17
A man [in police custody] who called a police surgeon a “f***ing Paki” was advised yesterday by a judge: “Next time call him a fat bastard and don’t say anything about his colour.”

The judge gave the unusual advice after describing the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute the man for a racially aggravated offence as “a nonsense” ... Judge Paul Darlow told the court that the case should never have been brought and suggested that Dr Jhetam [the police surgeon] should have let the insults “roll off his back”.

The judge said: “I wonder what this is doing in the Crown Court. This was a single sentence to a man who should not have taken it so seriously. He is a man of some considerable standing in society and I cannot see that it caused him any distress or hurt.

“It should not have caused a problem in this case.

“To charge it in the first place rather than, say, let it go by with a caution strikes me as rather odd. We let people hit each other and break into people’s homes and they are not charged.”
There is at least one Britisher who is still in possession of sense.
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#2  That's real good, asshole. GO ahead and phuque with the guy with a knife in his hand and you're laying on the table wearing a curtain. Might just wake up singing soprano.
I'll bet you piss off the dentist when you sit down in his chair too, don'cha?

Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-01-17 15:23  

#1  ...fat bastard...



Works for me...
Posted by: BigEd   2007-01-17 15:08  

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