{"id":10638,"date":"2011-08-11T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T16:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10638"},"modified":"2012-05-24T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:20:59","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-typical-uk-looter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-typical-uk-looter\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about the typical UK looter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is contained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/aug\/11\/fast-track-justice-courts-riots?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">this <em>Guardian<\/em> article<\/a> about the &#8220;fast track justice&#8221; system being used to process the arrestees:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Boyd, 31, was one of a series of defendants who appeared before Manchester magistrates court, which sat late into the night on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;go away, shut up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, you did read that right, &#8220;a woman with 96 previous convictions for theft&#8221; was one of the people arrested in the aftermath of a night of rioting. That was 96 <em>convictions<\/em>, not <em>arrests<\/em> or <em>charges<\/em>. That&#8217;s an example of the sort of people who were delighted to discover that the police weren&#8217;t cracking down on vandalism or looting, and decided to get in on the act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is contained in this Guardian article about the &#8220;fast track justice&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[343,267,816,742],"class_list":["post-10638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-justice","tag-manchester","tag-rioting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2LA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15208,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions\/15208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}