Female Judge arrested.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independen...y-police-8203907.html

/// “A 55-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday in Clapham, south London, interviewed by officers and bailed pending further inquiries,” a spokeswoman said. ///

What a strange statement for the police to make, do they usually make such statements when every other person is arrested?

[emmie]

how many judges get arrested? perhaps they are being guarded because to say much would be prejudicial to the case.

[Octavius]

Yes, they do, don't they? Or am I missing something?

[DTCwordfan]

Not really. They don't have to say anything until they charge her. Arrest doesn't mean that she has necessarily done anything wrong, so it may be more prudent to keep it sub judice[i for the moment.......I hear the cry of the baying masses of the DM readers over this, do I? [i] turns head and lifts ear to listen] Or is that the local hunt out?

[shoota]

They would if they were asked about it - given this ladies high profile some reporter would have contacted the press liaison for Kent and been given this anodyne reply.

[Zeuhl]

Yes

That is a standard police response when ASKED about a specific incident

i.e. they detail what action ensued without giving personal info.

for example, in Wales last week their first response to questions was along the lines of ' a 46 year old local man is helping police with their enquiries etc'

[emmie]

DT and the rest will you please give us a break, just because we read the Mail doesn't mean we are all rabid right wing fascists. Sick to death of the constant harping on about it.

[Kiki-frog]

Yes, that will have been the Met's press liaison officer, who will have a standard response. They're bound to have been contacted by journalists because of who she is

[humbersloop]

might just possibly be related to this affair

http://www.dailymail....-charged-serious.html

[jake-the-peg]

Arresting a judge of any type is not an everyday occurrence is it - when was the last time you remember a judge being arrested?

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't there one done for smuggling drink and cigarettes on his yacht from France? That was a while back.

[emmie]

very interesting

It yesterday emerged that evidence from part-time judge Constance Briscoe will play a key role in the CPS decision.

Respected economist Miss Pryce is reported to have confided in the judge, who is a family friend, that Mr Huhne asked her to say she was at the wheel of the car when it broke the speed limit in 2003. Miss Briscoe last year said she remembered the conversation during which she advised Miss Pryce to tell Mr Huhne to ‘go away and come clean’.

[DTCwordfan]

em - who said anything about DM readers being "rabid right wing fascists" - I certainly didn't. Actually my comment was more about stirring the pot that all information must be revealed "as it is in the public interest" and the sort of thing/story that the DM seizes on......I do note that AOG dug this one out of the Independent, and it's their sort of turf to.

However, your comment is a revealing perspective from someone who does read the Mail.......not one that I would have come up with.

[DTCwordfan]

So, while I don't agree with "speculation" then it sounds like that there may have been some witch-hunt going oin behind scenes - perversion of the curse of justice perhaps?

[sandyRoe]

Could there be sinister forces at work here? Some may remember the poison chalice john Stalker was given when asked to investigate 'shoot to kill' allegations in NI some years back. That commission effectively ended his career in the police.

[emmie]

I hear the cry of the baying masses of the DM readers over this, do I? [i turns head and lifts ear to listen] Or is that the local hunt out? ]

[emmie]

your comment.
I wonder at times why people bother making judgements on a paper they don't actually read. and the people who do read it.

[DTCwordfan]

Hell of an assumption that - I just love AB for audacious comments like this!

You don't even know me so how in God's name are you going to know my reading habits.

Well I'll tell you something - yes, the DT is my main read, but largely for the sport and their crosswords. If the FT was to incorporate the above, I would chose that. From time to time, I pick up the Grauniad and Indie, I do not like the Murdoch papers, largely avoiding them, and I'll flick through a Mail or Express, especially if I am travelling on a train.

I also enjoy the Eye and the Economist.

Don't assume - it doesn't behove you well.

[emmie]

i only followed your lead, and in fact others who openly slate the paper at every turn. You only have to put a link to it and the hands are up in the air, telling us who do read it that it's always a pack of lies, worse than
a red top. Never mind the fact that we also might read other papers. It's the one that gets bashed the most, which i do not understand.

[DTCwordfan]

IMO it is a pretty awful paper, though it is well assembled....it therefore risks be incredibly scurrilous and manipulative. Not more than one can say on that.

And my hunt comment was tongue in cheek - but actually they are out in the neighbourhood this afternoon, being the depths of the countryside here! Lol.