Diplomatic immunity?
Discussion
TVR1 said:
LM24Nut said:
blade7 said:
What exactly is the purpose of this, is it a get out of jail free card for the entitled and all their dependants? In light of the recent death of a 19 year old Northampton motorcyclist, has nothing changed since 1984?
What happened in 1984?Brief synopsis;
2 Libyan Embassy official leaned out of a window to machine gun protesters outside The London Embassy. WPC Fletcher was hit and died. Many protesters wounded. At least they kept it British, using Stirling SMG’s supplies by us.
Couple of days stand off and then embassy cleared out.
Embassy staff pictured walking out with ‘Diplomatic Bags’ one purported to be and fairly clearly containing and carried by, the offending guns/staff members.
Edited by TVR1 on Saturday 5th October 20:38
TVR1 said:
Yvonne Fletcher.
Brief synopsis;
2 Libyan Embassy official leaned out of a window to machine gun protesters outside The London Embassy. WPC Fletcher was hit and died. Many protesters wounded. At least they kept it British, using Stirling SMG’s supplies by us.
Couple of days stand off and then embassy cleared out.
Embassy staff pictured walking out with ‘Diplomatic Bags’ one purported to be and fairly clearly containing and carried by, the offending guns/staff members.
Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Brief synopsis;
2 Libyan Embassy official leaned out of a window to machine gun protesters outside The London Embassy. WPC Fletcher was hit and died. Many protesters wounded. At least they kept it British, using Stirling SMG’s supplies by us.
Couple of days stand off and then embassy cleared out.
Embassy staff pictured walking out with ‘Diplomatic Bags’ one purported to be and fairly clearly containing and carried by, the offending guns/staff members.
blade7 said:
What exactly is the purpose of this, is it a get out of jail free card for the entitled and all their dependants? In light of the recent death of a 19 year old Northampton motorcyclist, has nothing changed since 1984?
They, and any other staff can be declared ‘persona non grata’. So much for the ‘special relationship’; a one-way street as usual.
This has some useful information.
"Dependents of Service Staff are not afforded any immunity or inviolability."
So, "diplomat" gets immunity. "Wife of diplomat" does not get immunity... Which is probably why she fled, absconded, did a runner. Obviously it's very easy to get an extradition order from the US so they'll just do that.
"Dependents of Service Staff are not afforded any immunity or inviolability."
So, "diplomat" gets immunity. "Wife of diplomat" does not get immunity... Which is probably why she fled, absconded, did a runner. Obviously it's very easy to get an extradition order from the US so they'll just do that.
borcy said:
I doubt the spams will send anyone, wife child etc back regardless of what happened. Its their set policy.
If there's enough publicity she might get a slap on the wrists.
Probably all she'd have got if she'd stayed and faced the music. Maybe there's more to the situation than has been reported?If there's enough publicity she might get a slap on the wrists.
blade7 said:
borcy said:
I doubt the spams will send anyone, wife child etc back regardless of what happened. Its their set policy.
If there's enough publicity she might get a slap on the wrists.
Probably all she'd have got if she'd stayed and faced the music. Maybe there's more to the situation than has been reported?If there's enough publicity she might get a slap on the wrists.
borcy said:
blade7 said:
borcy said:
I doubt the spams will send anyone, wife child etc back regardless of what happened. Its their set policy.
If there's enough publicity she might get a slap on the wrists.
Probably all she'd have got if she'd stayed and faced the music. Maybe there's more to the situation than has been reported?If there's enough publicity she might get a slap on the wrists.
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