Magistrate in trouble for branding vandals as scum....
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As title suggests, two 17yr olds vandalised a cathedral and when in court, a magistrate branded them as 'scum'. The comment has landed the magistrate in hot water.
Sorry for sketchy details - just heard this on the radio. Unbelievable. Wrecking hymn books and vandalised other stuff.
Scum indeed. Actually, I'd go as far as to call them total and utter
s.
Sorry for sketchy details - just heard this on the radio. Unbelievable. Wrecking hymn books and vandalised other stuff.
Scum indeed. Actually, I'd go as far as to call them total and utter
s. 
They are scum, simple as.
The only people that are trying to get him in trouble are the tree hugging, arse kissing, politically correct morons who seem to have taken over how this country is run and think they speak for the majority of the country. When in fact they speak for a small minority of mentally deficient government tts.
The only people that are trying to get him in trouble are the tree hugging, arse kissing, politically correct morons who seem to have taken over how this country is run and think they speak for the majority of the country. When in fact they speak for a small minority of mentally deficient government t
ts. The local Mayor supported the Magistrate though.
Once found guilty i dont think it inappropriate to put to the offender the potential reaction, public consequence of their actions.
It may do them well to be told straight what they may be percieved as by others.
The magistrate didnt actually call them scum he just indicated that that was what the public may consider them to be.
A word of warning by a paternal-minded upstanding member of the community trying to open the eyes of the blind.
Once found guilty i dont think it inappropriate to put to the offender the potential reaction, public consequence of their actions.
It may do them well to be told straight what they may be percieved as by others.
The magistrate didnt actually call them scum he just indicated that that was what the public may consider them to be.
A word of warning by a paternal-minded upstanding member of the community trying to open the eyes of the blind.
bazking69 said:
WorAl said:
bazking69 said:
They are scum. The magistrate said nothing wrong IMO and they shouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Bit severe amputating their legs though.WorAl said:
bazking69 said:
WorAl said:
bazking69 said:
They are scum. The magistrate said nothing wrong IMO and they shouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Bit severe amputating their legs though.WorAl said:
bazking69 said:
WorAl said:
bazking69 said:
They are scum. The magistrate said nothing wrong IMO and they shouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Bit severe amputating their legs though.Plus it would send a nice message to all the other f
king retards out there.Timsta said:
WorAl said:
bazking69 said:
WorAl said:
bazking69 said:
They are scum. The magistrate said nothing wrong IMO and they shouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Bit severe amputating their legs though.A magistrate who described two boys as "absolute scum" for vandalising Blackburn Cathedral has been warned he could face disciplinary action.
Austin Malloy has been removed from his post as chairman of the bench while he is investigated by the Judicial Office of Communications (JCO).
He criticised the two 16-year-olds at the town's youth court after they caused £3,000 worth of damage.
The JCO said what happened was currently being investigated.
The court was told that the teenagers, who cannot be named because of their ages, wrote sexual and racist graffiti on prayer books and bent an ancient St John the Baptist cross after being invited to have a look around the cathedral.
'Mindless act'
On sentencing them during Thursday's hearing, he said: "This court is disgusted by the mindless destruction you have caused. Normal people would consider you absolute scum."
Both boys were fined and given supervision orders.
Mr Malloy said the other magistrates agreed with his comments, but the clerk in the court stood up and said she objected to his description of them.
The part-time magistrate, who has been on the bench for the past 18 years, said: "I have no regrets whatsoever, I made an appropriate statement about what they had done.
"It was an unprovoked, terrible mindless act."
He has received countless messages of support after discovering he had to stand down as chairman of the bench while an investigation is carried out.
He said that no date for his return as chairman of the bench has been set.
What is so worrying is that there will be a 'full investigation' into the magistrate's comments. Eh? Let's just spend more of the tax payers money on this one shall we? fook me! Supervision orders for the culprits! Can't name them because of their age? They are both 16yrs old ffs! Print the wkers addresses, names etc....
Hopefully the Magistrate will be offered a sincere apology - and awarded compensation!
Austin Malloy has been removed from his post as chairman of the bench while he is investigated by the Judicial Office of Communications (JCO).
He criticised the two 16-year-olds at the town's youth court after they caused £3,000 worth of damage.
The JCO said what happened was currently being investigated.
The court was told that the teenagers, who cannot be named because of their ages, wrote sexual and racist graffiti on prayer books and bent an ancient St John the Baptist cross after being invited to have a look around the cathedral.
'Mindless act'
On sentencing them during Thursday's hearing, he said: "This court is disgusted by the mindless destruction you have caused. Normal people would consider you absolute scum."
Both boys were fined and given supervision orders.
Mr Malloy said the other magistrates agreed with his comments, but the clerk in the court stood up and said she objected to his description of them.
The part-time magistrate, who has been on the bench for the past 18 years, said: "I have no regrets whatsoever, I made an appropriate statement about what they had done.
"It was an unprovoked, terrible mindless act."
He has received countless messages of support after discovering he had to stand down as chairman of the bench while an investigation is carried out.
He said that no date for his return as chairman of the bench has been set.
What is so worrying is that there will be a 'full investigation' into the magistrate's comments. Eh? Let's just spend more of the tax payers money on this one shall we? fook me! Supervision orders for the culprits! Can't name them because of their age? They are both 16yrs old ffs! Print the w
kers addresses, names etc....Hopefully the Magistrate will be offered a sincere apology - and awarded compensation!
WorAl said:
I was joking, but since you have come back, you think that someone who has vandalised a few books and some other stuff in a church, the richest organisation ever, should have their legs chopped off?
No, just break their arms. Then on the cast, in dayglo writing, but Vandal so that people they meet can see the scum that they are.WorAl said:
bazking69 said:
WorAl said:
bazking69 said:
They are scum. The magistrate said nothing wrong IMO and they shouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Bit severe amputating their legs though.Why shouldn't people be described as scum if that's what they are? A couple of years ago during a work presentation I described certain individuals as "scum", a few days later HR came calling as someone complained... now given that the individuals I described were variously found guilty of or subject to international arrest warrants for genocide, ethnic cleansing, murder, rape, fraud, money laundeing etc. I felt it was a pretty fair description (we're not talking one man's freedom fighter stuff here) and argued that all right minded people would share my opinion. Surely it's those who don't think despicable individuals can be described as such who should be getting questions asked of their character??
Edited by Greedydog on Tuesday 18th May 12:38
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