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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I don't agree with the verdict but we weren't party to everything and beyond all reasonable doubt means just that-for people to think its some great conspiracy or woke judges, or biased jury members or Starmer is all just hand wringing noise. The CPS decided to drop it after 2 goes.
Most think it's down to stupid jurors, dont try and sell a narrative that isnt balanced. You have basically done yourself over though with the very first thing you typed which was :-

I don't agree with verdict.

You then say you weren't party to everything, if thats your stance then fine but you therefore can't either agree or disagree with the verdict.

Unfortunately people will use this for political reasons but you are doing the same really.

Round and round we go.
 
It's artificially inflated nonsense to drive division and you are all falling for it. Someone gets nicked for assaulting a copper in every town in the country every night and nobody cares apart from the parties involved.
The airport and armed copper makes it different, not that you care about the thread obviously :-)
 
Again, missing context.

You have no idea whether they declared arrest or whether they were enquiring.

The jury seems to have had a better answer if they decided a 'not guilty' based on the law, not fill-in-the-blanks wishing.
Come off it,we’ve all seen the cctv,he knew they were coppers and what they wanted.
 
Most think it's down to stupid jurors, dont try and sell a narrative that isnt balanced. You have basically done yourself over though with the very first thing you typed which was :-

I don't agree with verdict.

You then say you weren't party to everything, if thats your stance then fine but you therefore can't either agree or disagree with the verdict.

Unfortunately people will use this for political reasons but you are doing the same really.

Round and round we go.
No, I can say how 'I feel' but I can also understand objectively that the jury's decision is theirs to make in all the circumstances.

As i said in another post there were numerous times when I'd come away from court really frustrated how we had 'lost'..
eg, I stopped the driver of a car and he had an asp in the door pocket-similar to the ones police have. At court his defence was that he used it to start his car. Of course that was a lie. The mags found him not guilty-and then simultaneously sentenced him for an outstanding matter-possessing a baseball bat with nails in it...I think they were somewhat embarrassed.

I also spent hours as part of a Newton Hearing explaining why as the Inspector I had asked my officers to arrest 3 individuals for aggravated trespass (a trail hunt) and let the dozens of others go-my argument which was accepted by the court that they in failing to give their details were masters of their own demise (because I hadn't used S24 and was not going to lie)..and then the CPS dropped it because one of those arrested said that she didn't speak to me and I didn't warn her-(which is needed to commit the full offence)-In the box I stated, 'with respect she spent most of the day calling me a ginger haired ****'.
So it was a lie but they all walked. And I had to deal with internal misconduct because they all then complained of unlawful arrest-

I've also spent hours in the box trying to demonstrate that a road at the back of some houses was indeed a road for drink drive purposes-i produced maps and everything-I can assure you it was a road-and the defendant was guilty-but the court decided otherwise.

My point being I do think the assailant assaulted the officer-but that does not stop the defence putting forward a defence to that (because we can all see that he does 'assault' him) which negates that-inc as Gordon rightly alluded to, an honestly held belief held by the defendant, or some other defence put forward that the some members of the jury accepted. That's what I mean, I am not party to everything-and that also includes other evidence, police and witness accounts, interviews with suspects etc which none of us are party to.

The system rightly allows defendants to put forward a defence and it is for the prosecution to prove it beyond ALL reasonable doubt.
 
That’s how it should work but clearly from the footage the evidence was ignored by at least 3 jurors in each trial, only they know the reason but they’re clearly, biased, dishonest, stupid or all three.

The video footage was not the only evidence presented and we have no idea what the other evidence was or how it impacted the jurors thinking. They have listened to all the evidence, the testimonies, then deliberated and this is their conclusion.

That you disagree with the verdict is your personal opinion and not based on the entirety of the evidence.
 
Fuckin right it is, 2 Russians were found dead last week, a right pair of cunts that were warned to stop what they were doing, if you do something bad here the communa will let you know! And the police will do nothing.
ok-guess it would free up court time...

utterly lawless, but hey.
 
I don't agree with the verdict but we weren't party to everything and beyond all reasonable doubt means just that-for people to think its some great conspiracy or woke judges, or biased jury members or Starmer is all just hand wringing noise. The CPS decided to drop it after 2 goes.
Conspiracy?

Sentencing & Judicial Guidelines (2025): The Sentencing Council faced intense political backlash over guidelines that instructed judges to normally request and consider pre-sentence reports specifically for offenders from ethnic, cultural, or faith minority backgrounds. Critics argued this created a discriminatory system where background and ethnicity were used to justify differential sentencing outcomes.
 
Conspiracy?

Sentencing & Judicial Guidelines (2025): The Sentencing Council faced intense political backlash over guidelines that instructed judges to normally request and consider pre-sentence reports specifically for offenders from ethnic, cultural, or faith minority backgrounds. Critics argued this created a discriminatory system where background and ethnicity were used to justify differential sentencing outcomes.
even if that were the case, this matter didn't reach sentencing.
 
no,its not utterly lawless, if you do something bad here, there will be justice, just not in court, it works.
but you can't have police killing people just because they have been assaulted-that's not a society we should welcome.
 
Perhaps the juries decided on the basis of the evidence presented during the trials. Which is kind of the point of a trial.
Unlikely - the two times i have been in a jury the jurors had said things like "the evidence may not make them look guilty but look at their face, it takes more than that to make me believe they are innocent' or 'look at his brother watching on, you can tell what the whole family are like' or (my favourite) "I am happy to go with the majority, I have tickets for the festival tomorrow'. - all genuinely true statements i heard when i was a juror. Unfortuantely your average juror is like your average person - IQ 100 - so logically half the fuckers on there are less than 100 and inevitibly two or three are thick as horseshit. And you expect them to sit through often complex trials when they probably have the intellect of a gnat?
My advice to anyone is - if you are accused of something and you are innocent dont ask for a jury - the judge is far more likely to understand the law and won't think you are guilty because you have a tattoo or shaved head.
if you are accused and you are actually guilty - get a jury - especially if the trial is complex. All you need is a decent barrister to confuse the idiots on the jury. And scrub up well...
 
Unlikely - the two times i have been in a jury the jurors had said things like "the evidence may not make them look guilty but look at their face, it takes more than that to make me believe they are innocent' or 'look at his brother watching on, you can tell what the whole family are like' or (my favourite) "I am happy to go with the majority, I have tickets for the festival tomorrow'. - all genuinely true statements i heard when i was a juror. Unfortuantely your average juror is like your average person - IQ 100 - so logically half the fuckers on there are less than 100 and inevitibly two or three are thick as horseshit. And you expect them to sit through often complex trials when they probably have the intellect of a gnat?
My advice to anyone is - if you are accused of something and you are innocent dont ask for a jury - the judge is far more likely to understand the law and won't think you are guilty because you have a tattoo or shaved head.
if you are accused and you are actually guilty - get a jury - especially if the trial is complex. All you need is a decent barrister to confuse the idiots on the jury. And scrub up well...
haha -my mum sat on a jury and loved every minute-she enjoyed retelling the story of both cases-I was like, well the one you let off (the smart dressed, well spoken one) was clearly guilty and telling a pack of lies and the (scruffy one) they convicted was probably innocent-certainly by the evidence she relayed ('he looked guilty').
 

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