Grandma's Hug - Shocking Story

[Ann]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2893067/Treated-worse-dog-Grandmother-freed-three-days-jail-hug-reveals-bruised-police-officers-deprived-sleep-access-lawyer-not-allowed-liver-pills.html


Of course we don't know the whole story but it all seems rather harsh to me - I think Derbyshire Social Services have a lot to answer for in all this. She obviously loves her granddaughter.

[shoota]

hc, no custody officer is going to risk his job and his pension by depriving an elderly lady of essential medicine for the sake of it.
She's bigging the story up in search of compo.....

[hc4361]

As I said, I find it very hard to believe she was refused medication.

[BlackadderV]

Beecham's Powders and Beecham's Pills are two distinct medications. The former is basically aspirin and the latter a laxative.

[hc4361]

Somebody showed a photo of her hugging her granddaughter to the authorities. Was that one of her parents?

[hc4361]

More info in the Guardian:

The local authority had alleged Danby was in breach of court orders made in September 2013 and in January and April 2014.

The orders banned Danby from any communication, save a single supervised monthly phone call, or visiting the granddaughter’s home town or college, or going within 100 metres of the girl.

Dowding said it was “very sad” that Danby had failed to comply with the court orders, which evidence showed had resulted in “a detrimental effect” on the granddaughter’s behaviour, “with consequences serious and profound”.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/dec/31/woman-jailed-hugging-granddaughter-court-freed-birmingham

[mushroom25]

//It's the Daily Mail - can't believe a word of it. //

it's in the guardian too Canary
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/dec/31/woman-jailed-hugging-granddaughter-court-freed-birmingham
now let's hear you denounce the guardian as a lying rag......

[Mamyalynne]

Whatever the rights and wrongs and the legalities - it is a sad story when families fall apart like this.

[shoota]

No mention of bruising, sleep and medication deprivation in the Guardian.

[hc4361]

No, The Guardian tells us the profound and devastating effect the 'chance' meeting had on the granddaughter

[sunny-dave]

The grandmother (nice emotive word that - less impressive if we call her just 'a woman') had a court order made against her, preventing anything other than supervised telephone access.

This order would only have been granted if the court was convinced that any other contact was highly detrimental to the child's emotional and/or physical well-being.

The order was made, the woman deliberately flouted it, risking the child's health by doing so, and is now playing the 'weeping grannie' card.

She should be locked up.

[sunny-dave]

Preferably in a shared cell with the 'journalist' who encouraged her to contribute to a shockingly bad bit of reporting.

[Retrochic]

What is 'shocking' about the story? A women flaunted a court order and got arrested. The child is a teenager in the care of the Local Authority. For all we know the women is an alcoholic drug dealing madam of the local knocking shop.

[BlackadderV]

Are there many drug dealers and madams in Orkney? No wonder they always return Liberal MPs.

[gness]

It is a sad story, Mamya......we don't know the facts...she may be very wrong and fit what Dave and Retro say......or not......

but it's hard not to hug a grandchild......x

[jno]

quite easy not to hug her when you're in Orkney and she's in Derby. It's getting yourself to her, in breach of several court orders, that's a challenge.

The "secretive" "Kafkaesque" court is trying to protect the granddaughter's interests.

[gness]

Hard not to want to hug a grandchild then.......

[BlackadderV]

I think that this woman may have shot herself firmly in the foot. Whilst the full details will not be revealed for legal reasons, some journalists will dig and dig until they find everything they can put in the public domain.

[jno]

try looking on granny as a stalker... she may not be one but the legal restrictions in force suggest that she is.

[gness]

Noooo....can't do that til I know for sure......

[jno]

well, the courts have heard the matter, at some length, it seems, and that's their conclusion.

Isn't there a Home for Dangerous Grannies* somewhere where they could keep her with her liver pills, safely protected against tabloid reporters?

*nothing personal, Gness