Michael Barrymore.....
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Repugnant Michael Barrymore is to get "more than nominal damages". Good eh. Looks like he'll get the couple of million he's after. Amazing Essex Police did not have reasonable grounds to suspect that Mr Barrymore was guilty - considering the victim was found floating in his pool. Common sense is obviously not allowed in this ridiculous country.
Coppers are going to need a lawyer standing next to them every time they consider whether or not they are allowed to arrest someone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40972546
Coppers are going to need a lawyer standing next to them every time they consider whether or not they are allowed to arrest someone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40972546
CoolHands said:
Repugnant Michael Barrymore is to get "more than nominal damages".
The reason given by the Judge seems bizarre to my non-legal mind:"While Mr Justice Stuart-Smith found there was "information available to the police that could have provided an arresting officer with reasonable grounds for a lawful arrest" the one officer with sufficient information to carry it out was not there at the time the entertainer was arrested.
That officer was stuck in traffic at the time, Essex Police said.
As a result, said Mr Justice Stuart-Smith, the arrest was unlawful and Mr Barrymore was therefore "entitled to recover more than nominal damages"."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40972546
Apparently Essex Police are going to appeal. I guess their budget for legal costs is bottomless.
Sheepshanks said:
CoolHands said:
Repugnant Michael Barrymore is to get "more than nominal damages".
The reason given by the Judge seems bizarre to my non-legal mind:"While Mr Justice Stuart-Smith found there was "information available to the police that could have provided an arresting officer with reasonable grounds for a lawful arrest" the one officer with sufficient information to carry it out was not there at the time the entertainer was arrested.
That officer was stuck in traffic at the time, Essex Police said.
As a result, said Mr Justice Stuart-Smith, the arrest was unlawful and Mr Barrymore was therefore "entitled to recover more than nominal damages"."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40972546
Apparently Essex Police are going to appeal. I guess their budget for legal costs is bottomless.
You haven't quoted the whole judgement though. According to the BBC, the judge gave several reasons in his detailed judgement, why Barrymore should NOT have been charged.
It seems like just another police cock up. Maybe they didn't like Barrymore either?
REALIST123 said:
You haven't quoted the whole judgement though. According to the BBC, the judge gave several reasons in his detailed judgement, why Barrymore should NOT have been charged.
It seems like just another police cock up. Maybe they didn't like Barrymore either?
snigger.
Ayahuasca said:
REALIST123 said:
You haven't quoted the whole judgement though. According to the BBC, the judge gave several reasons in his detailed judgement, why Barrymore should NOT have been charged.
It seems like just another police cock up. Maybe they didn't like Barrymore either?
snigger.
Barrymore could find himself in deep water after this Court of Appeal ruling. No doubt he’ll be away to drown his sorrows now.
“Entertainer Michael Barrymore will receive only nominal damages from Essex Police after an unlawful arrest which he claimed had "destroyed his career".
The comedian and TV presenter had hoped for a payout of more than £2.4m from the force in relation to his 2007 wrongful arrest on suspicion of the rape and murder of Stuart Lubbock.
Essex Police challenged the amount it owed him and has won its appeal.
This Court of Appeal ruling overturns the 2017 High Court ruling”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-465397...
“Entertainer Michael Barrymore will receive only nominal damages from Essex Police after an unlawful arrest which he claimed had "destroyed his career".
The comedian and TV presenter had hoped for a payout of more than £2.4m from the force in relation to his 2007 wrongful arrest on suspicion of the rape and murder of Stuart Lubbock.
Essex Police challenged the amount it owed him and has won its appeal.
This Court of Appeal ruling overturns the 2017 High Court ruling”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-465397...
BlackLabel said:
Barrymore could find himself in deep water after this Court of Appeal ruling. No doubt he’ll be away to drown his sorrows now.
“Entertainer Michael Barrymore will receive only nominal damages from Essex Police after an unlawful arrest which he claimed had "destroyed his career".
The comedian and TV presenter had hoped for a payout of more than £2.4m from the force in relation to his 2007 wrongful arrest on suspicion of the rape and murder of Stuart Lubbock.
Essex Police challenged the amount it owed him and has won its appeal.
This Court of Appeal ruling overturns the 2017 High Court ruling”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-465397...
He was always going to get arrested, so the 'it destroyed my career' is meaningless here. It was just fortunate for Barrymore the arresting officer bizarrely didn't have the grounds (which did exist) at the time of the arrest. “Entertainer Michael Barrymore will receive only nominal damages from Essex Police after an unlawful arrest which he claimed had "destroyed his career".
The comedian and TV presenter had hoped for a payout of more than £2.4m from the force in relation to his 2007 wrongful arrest on suspicion of the rape and murder of Stuart Lubbock.
Essex Police challenged the amount it owed him and has won its appeal.
This Court of Appeal ruling overturns the 2017 High Court ruling”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-465397...
I think the dead person in the pool, the link to drugs, refusing to answer questions at Lubbock's inquest and all the negative media attention from 2001 on wards essentially destroyed his career.
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