24 Hours in Police Custody: Ch4
Discussion
CoolHands said:
I think people like her just do whatever they can for themselves, drugs are all they think about and want; you can’t believe one word they say.
Horrible life though, abscesses at age 32? where she injects so much. Urgh.
You realise when you see the state of her place how everything else - food /house / looking after yourself - just falls down the order of importance compared to finding enough money for drugs everyday. Horrible life though, abscesses at age 32? where she injects so much. Urgh.
Very sad, I hope she get she help she needs and this could turn out to be a blessing in disguise .
I watched a couple of very interesting programs on how people spiral into heroin addiction, focused mostly on America’s huge opiate addiction. Stories including reasonably successful people , get injured for some reason, get prescribed strong painkillers to help them cope, get addicted, the supply is cut off by the Doctors , so they self medicate in anyway they can just to function and eventually leads onto heroin use for example. Terribly tragic.
Edited by Fckitdriveon on Monday 5th March 23:26
Legacywr said:
I did feel a bit sorry for her, it was obvious what had transpired, but, she didn’t have the mental capacity to just ring the police.
Indeed. There would probably also be paranoia and the fear of police involvement, thus prevention from the 'elixir of life' needed to fuel her existence. Very sad and, as said, perhaps the chance for a more meaningful life once her sentence is completed. Robertj21a said:
Didn't I see, right at the very end, in the comments, that she'd received a 2 year jail sentence and was taking part in a drug rehabilitation programme ?
It actually said that she was sentenced to two years in prison and completed a drugs rehabilitation course while in prison.This all happened in April 2017 so she may be out in licence already.
Edit: she was sentenced in September.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 6th March 07:36
Dr Jekyll said:
Fckitdriveon said:
Stories including reasonably successful people , get injured for some reason, get prescribed strong painkillers to help them cope, get addicted,....
Basically what happened to Howard Hughes.Fckitdriveon said:
You realise when you see the state of her place how everything else - food /house / looking after yourself - just falls down the order of importance compared to finding enough money for drugs everyday.
That was clean and tidy compared to some.I'm LAS and some of the drugs dens we end up getting called to are truly beyond words.
Went to one where a guy existed in amongst piles of rubbish, there's no other way to describe it. Imagine taking your full wheelie bin every week, and upending it in the middle of the room and living amongst that, including human faeces and puddles of urine - the bathroom had clearly ceased to function long before.
Then imagine that after a few years - waist deep rotting rubbish with just little rat runs through it all. The floor was sagging where the floor boards were sodden with something, the place stank like a bin lorry, and it was all illuminated by a single 40watt light bulb dangling from the ceiling. Obviously there were no curtains, and the bloke "living" there shuffled round the place stark b
k naked.And this wasn't in some squalid den under a railway arch somewhere, it was in a fairly respectable council block, with people watching Sky in the flat next door, comfortably stretched out on their Sofaworks recliner.
When we informed him we'd be taking him in to hospital, he just starting rummaging through all the piles of rubbish for something resembling clothes.
Yes the case was relatively simple but raised interesting questions.
The police seemed to start from a position of murder and still stuck to that pretty much to the end despite it not looking like murder for some time.
Was the public really protected by sending her to prison? Probably just cheaper to put her through drug rehabilitation without the cost of incarceration. Dunno. The fact she had skipped bail several times already prob didn't help.
As others have said, I felt sorry for her. Chaotic life and chaotic thought processes.
The police seemed to start from a position of murder and still stuck to that pretty much to the end despite it not looking like murder for some time.
Was the public really protected by sending her to prison? Probably just cheaper to put her through drug rehabilitation without the cost of incarceration. Dunno. The fact she had skipped bail several times already prob didn't help.
As others have said, I felt sorry for her. Chaotic life and chaotic thought processes.
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