Lost Prophets...

[butchersapron]

Stored in commercial places and all that i bet. So true and not true.

 

[joustmaster]

Even if four people share one PC, that's be a bloody tiny PC

I would guess that they aren't talking about the PCs

 

[belboid]

Stored in commercial places and all that i bet. So true and not true.

ie - a rather meaningless phrase they chuck in to mean 'a lot' - comparisons with the size of Wales being the traditional comparator

 

[FridgeMagnet]

This is tech information filtered through the police and then through the BBC. I'm not sure I'd rely on any of the details.

 

[belboid]

I would guess that they aren't talking about the PCs

but what is it then? The main servers? I'd be surprised if that was as little as 6TB for that many people.

 

[neonwilderness]

this does sound bizarre, doesnt it? 6TB would mean that there staff of 4500ish would only have 6GB of data each, which seems very low, even if they're not ripping DVD's on their PC's

That is probably just the size of the police database vs the total storage Watkins had or something. The numbers make a good story but are fairly meaningless without more context.

 

[joustmaster]

but what is it then? The main servers? I'd be surprised if that was as little as 6TB for that many people.

Yeah, I'd guess its their NAS on their local file server.

 

[joustmaster]

But impossible to say.
I need some facts.

 

[Plumdaff]

In my NHS job we're only allowed a tiny amount of storage - to the extent that a considerable amount of time in our team is spent pruning our shared drives etc. to keep them within the limits - can imagine any other parts of the public sector have the forethought or the budget to do better.

eta - but obviously the electronic data records take up vast amounts of storage which is where all our budget goes. So I'll back away slowly.....

 

[Fez909]

In my NHS job we're only allowed a tiny amount of storage - to the extent that a considerable amount of time in our team is spent pruning our shared drives etc. to keep them within the limits - can imagine any other parts of the public sector have the forethought or the budget to do better.

eta - but obviously the electronic data records take up vast amounts of storage which is where all our budget goes. So I'll back away slowly.....

Same in the Environment Agency. Tiny storage; constantly juggling files to make sure your emails don't get bounced etc.

 

[ddraig]

fucks sake
another case in Wales with a nursery worker handing over the baby to a known abuser she was reportedly attracted to.
got 16 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-27591344

Semmens ran babysitting services from her flat in Cardiff, regularly looking after boys aged between three and six, the court heard.

When Hughes and his boyfriend Hamish Morgan moved into a flat next door the three became close friends. But the court heard Semmens was attracted to Mr Morgan and hoped that by providing children to Hughes it would clear the way for her to have a relationship with him.

Prosecutor Laurence Jones told the court Semmens not only supplied the boy to Hughes but allowed him to abuse him in her bedroom.

'Vile activities'
"By her own admission Semmens knew Hughes was a child sex offender who was banned from having any contact with children," said Mr Jones.

"But she was trying to satisfy Hughes's perversions for young male children."

The court heard police said Semmens had "developed a taste" for child abuse images and police found images of two other boys she had looked after on her computer.

Hughes and Semmens went on the run when they realised police were on to them.

 

[Belushi]

His appeal against the length of his sentence has been rejected.

 

[8ball]

Fuck knows what grounds he thought he had for an appeal.

 

[butchersapron]

Fuck knows what grounds he thought he had for an appeal.

According to the Guardian:

However, he changed his plea at the last minute, averting a trial, but then complained he had not realised that his guilty plea had made him "look guilty".

 

[Orang Utan]

According to the Guardian:

Wot? eh? pardon?

 

[Belushi]

The judges appear to have taken all of an hour to mull over their decision.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The judges appear to have taken all of an hour to mull over their decision.

A whole hour? Must've opted for a Tesco Triple instead of the regular sandwich.

 

[ddraig]

good
let's hope he shuts up for a good while now

 

[existentialist]

A whole hour? Must've opted for a Tesco Triple instead of the regular sandwich.

I bet judges don't eat Tesco sandwiches.

They probably spent most of the hour trying to figure out ways of making the sentence LONGER.

 

[ddraig]

No Devotion, new band made up of old Lost Prophets members and someone else has tune out

No Devotion is the new band formed by members of Lostprophets with ex-Thursday lead singer Geoff Rickly. ‘Stay’ is the first of two singles (and a remix EP) that the band plans to release before introducing their debut album to the public in early 2015.

http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk//shop/rockandpop/?sl=N&productid=29411#pt_29411

 

[Gingerman]

His appeal against the length of his sentence has been rejected.

mega lolz

 

[Silva]

No Devotion, new band made up of old Lost Prophets members and someone else has tune out

http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk//shop/rockandpop/?sl=N&productid=29411#pt_29411

radio crap, but good for them. Can't imagine how it is to be dragged into this kind of mess because what was apparently little more than a co-worker turned out to be a sick fuck.

 

[october_lost]

I have a slightly hard-time they knew absolutely nothing. Because he's touring with them, and there must have been groupies involved at some stage.

 

[Red Cat]

I have a slightly hard-time they knew absolutely nothing. Because he's touring with them, and there must have been groupies involved at some stage.

Its known that professionals don't see abuse that should be obvious, that they want to believe the parents' stories, can't believe such awfulness is taking place. 'Knowing' about these things appears to be quite complicated.

 

[belboid]

I have a slightly hard-time they knew absolutely nothing. Because he's touring with them, and there must have been groupies involved at some stage.

they'd had different hotels for the last five or so years, i believe, so they never saw who went up to his room with him

 

[ddraig]

Joanne Mjadzelics shared child abuse images with Ian Watkins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-30682720
grim and sick

The jury heard excerpts from a sex tape from 2008 where Watkins and Ms Mjadzelics, who had a relationship, discussed their desire to abuse very young children together.

The video was entitled "Jo paedo talk Cardiff" and prosecutor Jim Davies told the jury the pair discussed their desire to abuse children.

They also heard Ms Mjadzelics had said in the video she wanted to kidnap and rape children.

The prosecution then read out parts of an online conversation in 2011 where Watkins posted indecent images of child abuse, and Ms Mjadzelics' explicit responses.

 

[skyscraper101]

Apparently Watkins enjoys a game of pool and table tennis with 'evil arsonist' Mick Philpott I was reading this morning.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/paedophile-ian-watkins-evil-arsonist-4919465

 

[belboid]

Mjadzelics found not guilty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-30820349

 

[wiskey]

gosh.

Am I right in thinking that the Watkins fans blame her for a lot of stuff, like there is a 'pre Jo' period and then he changed?

 

[ddraig]

bloody hell!

She told how she gave evidence to police at least five times but they failed to act for four years.

Speaking through tears after the not guilty verdicts she said: "I shouldn't have even been here - just for doing the police's job that they couldn't be arsed to do."

and

Deputy Chief Constable for South Wales Police, Matt Jukes, said: "We respect the decision of the court today."