Manchester Airport police assault trial | Man found guilty of assaulting two female police officers | Both defendants cleared of assaulting third PC

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RadcliffeRick said:
That's going back some time, British Caledonian and BOAC!
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Stoned Rose said:
Was definitely a thing mate.
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There were a few vantage points. There was a place to park right at the barrier to the northern end of the runway. Opposite some municipal housing. Great to see the planes land from there with the roof down on my car. Used to take my lad there when he was small. He fucking loved it.

And then there was a viewing point at the other end. A decent sized boozer at each end of the runway. The Ringway (now ‘Airport Pub’) and The Romper.
 
normskih said:
I can go back as far as being on the pier for 10p and then you got a token to put in and you went through a turnstile thing.
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We used to hang off the car park and drop down onto some office roofs , then run over to get on the piers for nowt!!!! Think it was only 2p to get on the piers in them days but we were potless!!!! Thought I’d broke my back doin that once and never did it again after that!!!!
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Prior to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 there was a presumption that a defendant’s bad character didn’t go in.

The main exceptions to that were where a defendant gave a false impression to the court about their character e.g. saying “I would never do something like this” when giving evidence, or where the defendant adduced the conviction themselves, most commonly where they have previous convictions where they have always previously pleaded guilty and they are pleading not guilty on this occasion, or something that provides important context to their defence. For obvious reasons this wasn’t exercised frequently.

Codifying and widening the scope of bad character within the CJA ‘03 was part of a series of steps that started in the ‘90s which have redressed the balance in criminal proceedings away from the defence and towards the prosecution - other notable examples are negative inferences that can now be drawn from a defendant not answering questions in interview or not giving evidence in their defence.

I think all of these steps have been broadly in the interests of justice, and they also provide some factual context to the suggestion that the justice system is increasingly stacked towards defendants when it demonstrably is not.

It’s the same with sentencing, which has been inexorably on the increase for the last 30 years or so. All these strident predictions on this thread of a suspended sentence are part of that misinformation space. There is no way this will be a suspended sentence. Not for an ABH conviction against a police officer at an airport. The judge will give him a good kicking for that, and quite right too. A clear message needs to be sent out.
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Didn't understand 90% of that but I love it when you talk dirty.....
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
There were a few vantage points. There was a place to park right at the barrier to the northern end of the runway. Opposite some municipal housing. Great to see the planes land from there with the roof down on my car. Used to take my lad there when he was small. He fucking loved it.

And then there was a viewing point at the other end. A decent sized boozer at each end of the runway. The Ringway (now ‘Airport Pub’) and The Romper.
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It kicked off in that pub when I was about 7 and my dad had taken me to watch the planes! Pint pots flying everywhere.
 
It was always kicking off in the airport pub when I was going there when i worked at Truse House Forte. Shame because it was a lovely location. The pub has improved a lot since then though.

The Romper was used by the pilots when I used to go there, nice little pub.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
It was always kicking off in the airport pub when I was going there when i worked at Truse House Forte. Shame because it was a lovely location. The pub has improved a lot since then though.

The Romper was used by the pilots when I used to go there, nice little pub.
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Was a good pub . It was good when you could get to the ship in style easily from there
 
calumdown said:
have i made this up in my own head,
or could you go and simply watch the planes take off and land, for free somehow?
possibly up on top of the terminal itself.
just turn up with sarnies and binoculars, no bag searches.
i'm meaning mid-late 70's.
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Mid 60’s cycled to ringway with my plane spotters book…..happy days
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
There were a few vantage points. There was a place to park right at the barrier to the northern end of the runway. Opposite some municipal housing. Great to see the planes land from there with the roof down on my car. Used to take my lad there when he was small. He fucking loved it.

And then there was a viewing point at the other end. A decent sized boozer at each end of the runway. The Ringway (now ‘Airport Pub’) and The Romper.
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Bet the roof soon fucking went back up going through Benchill.
 
manclad said:
Quick quiz .
Name two songs that mention BOAC in their lyrics.
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Nice one!

The most obvious one is Back in the USSR and there is also Montego Bay (although its not that obvious to the listener as I think Bobby Bloom sings it as "BO-AC" in the latter).

Clearly no or very few references to BOAC in songs post the merger with BEA in the early 1970's....
 
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