{"id":9640,"date":"2012-07-24T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9640"},"modified":"2022-12-27T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T17:06:46","slug":"the-law-is-an-ass-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9640","title":{"rendered":"The Law Is An Ass!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you believe this story? <s>Emma Robertson was banned for 2 years and given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for 2 years in January<\/s> (link now dead, and the internet apparently wiped of any reference to the case). Here\u2019s what she did to get that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">drove off without paying for \u00a320 of fuel<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">tried to evade police by \u201cspeeding off\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">drove through 3 sets of red traffic lights<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">rammed a police car as she was boxed in<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, she <strong>should<\/strong> have been put away there and then. But she\u2019s a woman, and no doubt had a handbag-full of mitigating circumstances that the court fell for hook, line, and sinker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But &#8211; only six months later &#8211; Robertson, from Havant in Portsmouth, has been caught behind the wheel while banned (so she was also uninsured). She has \u201cadmitted\u201d &#8211; that\u2019s court-speak, because it doesn\u2019t matter if she \u201cadmits\u201d it or not, she\u2019s still guilty &#8211; to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">driving while disqualified<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">driving without insurance<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #393e37;\">breaching the suspended sentence handed down last time<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You really would think that this would be enough to see her serve that prison sentence, wouldn\u2019t you? But no. Our courts are so soft on chav drivers &#8211; and the female version in particular &#8211; that the hearing \u201cwas adjourned until August\u201d and she was \u201creleased on bail\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She should be on remand, awaiting a longer sentence on top of the original one. 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