How about the bloke was dishonourably discharged from the Army for stealing ammo?
where is the relevance to handing in a firearm as any good citizen in the interests of their community should apart from character assassination?
Or that he was suspected of shooting another doorman over drug business, but the case was discontinued due to lack of evidence, ie a gun?
Suspicion is now grounds for guilt on its own merits? That's an interesting interpretation of the English criminal legal system.
Or how about the fact that the shotgun he handed in had previously been licensed to him and had had the barrels and stock cut off and a partial serial number recovered through forensics?
if only a partial serial number was recovered how can they 100% guarantee that the shotgun is indeed the same one that was licensed to him? I'm guessing the additional details of cut-off stock/barrels is purely in the interest of allowing our imagination run wild with visions of gangland bangers with sawn-off shotguns.
as the number had not been ground off enough?
that is a contradiction with the previous statement - either it was a partial recovery of a serial number or a full recovery of the serial number. Which one is it? How can we have confidence in the factual accuracy of the other information provided if you cannot get such a simple detail as to whether a partial or full serial number was taken?
25Pdr,
the above isn't at all directed at you but the bobby that wrote it, more an observation that if a non lawyer can turn it around after a first reading imagine what a real lawyer can do.
Newspapers sell tripe because as P.T. Barnum apocryphally observed, there's a sucker born every minute and if you saw it on TV or read it on the internet then it must be true
sensationalist trivia masquerading as news or investigative journalism ?
Decide for yourself
where is the relevance to handing in a firearm as any good citizen in the interests of their community should apart from character assassination?
Or that he was suspected of shooting another doorman over drug business, but the case was discontinued due to lack of evidence, ie a gun?
Suspicion is now grounds for guilt on its own merits? That's an interesting interpretation of the English criminal legal system.
Or how about the fact that the shotgun he handed in had previously been licensed to him and had had the barrels and stock cut off and a partial serial number recovered through forensics?
if only a partial serial number was recovered how can they 100% guarantee that the shotgun is indeed the same one that was licensed to him? I'm guessing the additional details of cut-off stock/barrels is purely in the interest of allowing our imagination run wild with visions of gangland bangers with sawn-off shotguns.
as the number had not been ground off enough?
that is a contradiction with the previous statement - either it was a partial recovery of a serial number or a full recovery of the serial number. Which one is it? How can we have confidence in the factual accuracy of the other information provided if you cannot get such a simple detail as to whether a partial or full serial number was taken?
25Pdr,
the above isn't at all directed at you but the bobby that wrote it, more an observation that if a non lawyer can turn it around after a first reading imagine what a real lawyer can do.
Newspapers sell tripe because as P.T. Barnum apocryphally observed, there's a sucker born every minute and if you saw it on TV or read it on the internet then it must be true
sensationalist trivia masquerading as news or investigative journalism ?
Decide for yourself