muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Hopefully this whole thing might usher us towards the death of that genre tbh
RIP Sarah Everard, who went missing from Brixton in March 2021
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
I imagine he burnt her body trying to dispose of it. Hence the dental record thing.
bimble
floofy
something along those lines, very possibly something he saw on a tv show.
Treacle Toes
Time
FUCK. THIS. SHIT.
A drunken off-duty police officer who attacked a terrified woman as she walked home alone was allowed to walk free from court.
PC Oliver Banfield, a probationary officer with West Midlands Police, grabbed Emma Homer on a dark street last July.
He used techniques taught during police training to try to tackle the mum-of-two to the ground and put her in a headlock.
Miss Homer, 36, managed to flee from the scene as Banfield, who had been on a night out, branded her a “f ****** slag”.
A court heard the 25-year-old remains in his post with West Midlands Police despite admitting a charge of assault by beating.
www.mirror.co.uk
A drunken off-duty police officer who attacked a terrified woman as she walked home alone was allowed to walk free from court.
PC Oliver Banfield, a probationary officer with West Midlands Police, grabbed Emma Homer on a dark street last July.
He used techniques taught during police training to try to tackle the mum-of-two to the ground and put her in a headlock.
Miss Homer, 36, managed to flee from the scene as Banfield, who had been on a night out, branded her a “f ****** slag”.
A court heard the 25-year-old remains in his post with West Midlands Police despite admitting a charge of assault by beating.
Off-duty police officer who attacked 'terrified' woman walking home spared jail
EXCLUSIVE: PC Oliver Banfield grabbed Emma Homer, 36, on a dark street and used techniques taught during his training to try to tackle the mum-of-two to the ground and put her in a headlock
www.mirror.co.uk
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Culture of impunity. On top of the sexism thing. Vile.FUCK. THIS. SHIT.
A drunken off-duty police officer who attacked a terrified woman as she walked home alone was allowed to walk free from court.
PC Oliver Banfield, a probationary officer with West Midlands Police, grabbed Emma Homer on a dark street last July.
He used techniques taught during police training to try to tackle the mum-of-two to the ground and put her in a headlock.
Miss Homer, 36, managed to flee from the scene as Banfield, who had been on a night out, branded her a “f ****** slag”.
A court heard the 25-year-old remains in his post with West Midlands Police despite admitting a charge of assault by beating.
Off-duty police officer who attacked 'terrified' woman walking home spared jail
EXCLUSIVE: PC Oliver Banfield grabbed Emma Homer, 36, on a dark street and used techniques taught during his training to try to tackle the mum-of-two to the ground and put her in a headlock
This would be a very good place for the country to start - sure, educate kids to treat women respectfully, etc., but FFS how are these "occasional rotten apples" able to be quietly dropped back into the barrel nearly every time??
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
this made me angry
www.theguardian.com
Priti Patel wanted police to stop people gathering at Sarah Everard vigil
Exclusive: some police chiefs feel ‘hung out to dry’ as memo reveals home secretary’s enforcement call
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Starry Wisdom
i wonder why it was thought appropriate to have a large picture of eh accompanying that storyFUCK. THIS. SHIT.
A drunken off-duty police officer who attacked a terrified woman as she walked home alone was allowed to walk free from court.
PC Oliver Banfield, a probationary officer with West Midlands Police, grabbed Emma Homer on a dark street last July.
He used techniques taught during police training to try to tackle the mum-of-two to the ground and put her in a headlock.
Miss Homer, 36, managed to flee from the scene as Banfield, who had been on a night out, branded her a “f ****** slag”.
A court heard the 25-year-old remains in his post with West Midlands Police despite admitting a charge of assault by beating.
Off-duty police officer who attacked 'terrified' woman walking home spared jail
EXCLUSIVE: PC Oliver Banfield grabbed Emma Homer, 36, on a dark street and used techniques taught during his training to try to tackle the mum-of-two to the ground and put her in a headlock
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
I was going to post something along the lines of 'or something he learnt during police training', but thought better of it, thought it might seem a bit glib in the current circumstances. Then this post from Rutita1 . Unbelievable.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
So they put him on a curfew instead. During a lockdown. That's some punishment.
He’s not locked up for that?!
(Can’t bring myself to read it)
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Starry Wisdom
If I did anything like this in a probationary period I'm sure I'd be out on my ear so I see no reason why this miserable creature shouldn't have been handed his p45
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
No, and as far as I can tell he's kept his job. It's a piss take.He’s not locked up for that?!
Wow. How is that even possible. That’s an absolute outrage. What can we do about that?
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Starry Wisdom
It's unbelievable. And not even a proper cop but a probationer. Should be in prison and sacked. And he's neither.He’s not locked up for that?!
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Starry Wisdom
I wonder if it's possible to appeal a magistrate's court sentence as too lenient
Fuck this. West Midland Police need to be held to account. As does that magistrate. That poor woman. The man is a dangerous, misogynistic piece of shit. He needs to learn a lesson not be given his job back.
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Starry Wisdom
Yeh surely police officers should be held to a higher standard and where they act as this man has should have the book thrown at them.
tony.c
Well-Known Member
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Starry Wisdom
He should be facing a disciplinary through the bars of a cell
got to wonder if this would have been the case had it happened a few weeks ago mind.
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
ACAB but WMP are particularly bad
Struwwelpeter
Earthling
There're two distinct things here: the sentence and the employer's response (setting aside the fact that the employer is the police).
Neither is acceptably severe, but it would only be possible to appeal the sentence if it wasn't in line with sentencing guidelines. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a first offence for an "upstanding member of society" plus a possible association with the same lodge/golf club as the magistrate is typically in line with what he got.
However, I would have thought that this would count as gross misconduct where an employee has misused training gained during their work to assault a member of the public, and bringing the reputation of his employer into disrepute. However, as his employer is the police, maybe they regard their reputation as untarnishable, at least as far as the people who matter to them are concerned.
The only upside to this is that some more of the public might begin to realise that the police are institutionally violent and sexist as well as racist, but I suspect that the bad apples myth will endure.
Neither is acceptably severe, but it would only be possible to appeal the sentence if it wasn't in line with sentencing guidelines. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a first offence for an "upstanding member of society" plus a possible association with the same lodge/golf club as the magistrate is typically in line with what he got.
However, I would have thought that this would count as gross misconduct where an employee has misused training gained during their work to assault a member of the public, and bringing the reputation of his employer into disrepute. However, as his employer is the police, maybe they regard their reputation as untarnishable, at least as far as the people who matter to them are concerned.
The only upside to this is that some more of the public might begin to realise that the police are institutionally violent and sexist as well as racist, but I suspect that the bad apples myth will endure.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I doubt it's the first offence he's committed, sure most people would take some time to work their way up to it. Tho it may be the first time he's been caught
Cid
Proper break this time
Problem is that a magistrate (or in this case DJ) is only ever going to be working with what the prosecution is able to come up with, based on the investigation by er... the police. I dunno, the man (I had a quick google, District Judge Nick Watson) may be a tool and a pillock, but people often get off with shit like this because investigations are poorly funded and conducted by incompetent, corrupt idiots (the police), then passed to underfunded, overworked prosectors.
