… is contained in this Guardian article about the “fast track justice” system being used to process the arrestees:
One of the people dealt with by the court overnight included a woman with 96 previous convictions for theft who pleaded guilty to stealing alcohol, cigarettes and mobile phone accessories.
Linda Boyd, 31, was one of a series of defendants who appeared before Manchester magistrates court, which sat late into the night on Wednesday.
The court heard that she was drunk and had found an orange bin liner filled with the stolen goods in Manchester city centre, and began dragging it away, intending to share it with friends.
Her case was adjourned until 16 August, when she will be sentenced at Manchester crown court. Boyd stalked from the glass-walled dock telling the district judge who presided over the magistrates court to “go away, shut up.”
Yes, you did read that right, “a woman with 96 previous convictions for theft” was one of the people arrested in the aftermath of a night of rioting. That was 96 convictions, not arrests or charges. That’s an example of the sort of people who were delighted to discover that the police weren’t cracking down on vandalism or looting, and decided to get in on the act.
NINETY SIX PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS, chrissakes !!! absolutely disgusting, it’s obvious this effigy of a human has NOT learned ANY lessons, consequently SHE should have received a custodial sentence, in fact since it appears she was given a lighter sentence BECAUSE she was female, she should be given a DOUBLE sentence, to be made an example of, thus as a deterrant, females will realise that committing crimes because they know they can get off easy BECAUSE they’re female, will be less likely to. Committing a crime BECAUSE you know you’ll get off light deserves to have the law come down on you like a ton of bricks !!!
Comment by zz9zerozalpha — August 16, 2011 @ 18:40