Harry due in court on Monday 23rd January 2012 (merged)

[IM NOT REALLY HERE]

@pearcesport
Sorry for delay. Judge has asked journalists to go outside court room when they tweet. I've now done that and here's what's happened so far

-Prosecution tell jury that Redknapp didn't tell accountant about his Monaco account for four and half years.

-Jury told that Redknapp didn't tell his bank relations manager about Monaco account for five years and eight months

-Prosecution say initial civil tax investigation into Redknapp after his £300,000 bonus on Rio Ferdinand transfer found he DID pay tax on it

-Jury told that Redknapp only revealed Monaco account when Premier League's Quest inquiry asked him "Do you have offshore bank account?"

-Redknapp told Quest inquiry that he had accountant who invested the money in his Monaco account for him

-Redknapp allegedly said that his accountant had told him that Monaco account had done "not very well" and half investment had been lost

-Quest later received letter from Milan Mandaric saying that HE had opened Monaco account for Redknapp and had invested money there for him

-Short break. Prosecution have been quoting from long series of letters between various people about origin of Redknapp's Monaco account

-Prosecution say a letter sent from R's accountant to his bank relations manager asking how Monaco account set up without R's knowledge

 

[kippaxwarrior]

If found guilty whats the maximum sentence he can get?

 

[Chris in London]

If found guilty whats the maximum sentence he can get?

In theory 7 years (I think) , but I think that's unlikely.

12-18 months, if found guilty.

 

[M18CTID]

If found guilty whats the maximum sentence he can get?

In theory 7 years (I think) , but I think that's unlikely.

12-18 months, if found guilty.

Is it possible he could escape jail if found guilty?

 

[Manc in London]

He's more likely to be able to escape jail if he is guilty as yo tend not to get sent to prison if you are innocvent.

Not sure it would be a good idea to try to escape as he is quite famous.

 

[M18CTID]

He's more likely to be able to escape jail if he is guilty as yo tend not to get sent to prison if you are innocvent.

Not sure it would be a good idea to try to escape as he is quite famous.

I see what you did there lol.

To re-phrase the question, if he is found guilty is it a possibility that he will avoid a custodial sentence?

 

[Chris in London]

If found guilty whats the maximum sentence he can get?

In theory 7 years (I think) , but I think that's unlikely.

12-18 months, if found guilty.

Is it possible he could escape jail if found guilty?

Possible, not likely. From what I know of it (no much) the government hands down guidelines for sentences for particular crimes. So you start with the guideline, and you say 'okay, what makes this particular offence and this particular offender worse than the norm, and what makes them not so bad as most?'

Imagine you have a single mother with three children under 5 who has carried on claiming a benefit when she's no longer entitled to it so she can give her kids a slightly better standard of living. She got two grand from the DSS and now she's paid it back. Jail? I don't think so.

So the Judge might look at who the victim is, whether Arry has got form for tax evasion or other offences, the amount of the fraud, whether it's a one-off or an ongoing series of frauds and so on. So if 40 people all lose their jobs if he's sent down, he did it all on his accountant's advice, he admitted it when interviewed and he's paid back every peny plus interest and made a large donation to charity, maybe he gets a hefty fine and a suspended sentence.

I don't myself see that happening here, but you never know.

 

[M18CTID]

In theory 7 years (I think) , but I think that's unlikely.

12-18 months, if found guilty.

Is it possible he could escape jail if found guilty?

Possible, not likely. From what I know of it (no much) the government hands down guidelines for sentences for particular crimes. So you start with the guideline, and you say 'okay, what makes this particular offence and this particular offender worse than the norm, and what makes them not so bad as most?'

Imagine you have a single mother with three children under 5 who has carried on claiming a benefit when she's no longer entitled to it so she can give her kids a slightly better standard of living. She got two grand from the DSS and now she's paid it back. Jail? I don't think so.

So the Judge might look at who the victim is, whether Arry has got form for tax evasion or other offences, the amount of the fraud, whether it's a one-off or an ongoing series of frauds and so on. So if 40 people all lose their jobs if he's sent down, he did it all on his accountant's advice, he admitted it when interviewed and he's paid back every peny plus interest and made a large donation to charity, maybe he gets a hefty fine and a suspended sentence.

I don't myself see that happening here, but you never know.

Ok, cheers mate. If a guilty verdict is reached, let's hope the judge is impartial in his sentencing ;)

 

[Chris in London]

Is it possible he could escape jail if found guilty?

Possible, not likely. From what I know of it (no much) the government hands down guidelines for sentences for particular crimes. So you start with the guideline, and you say 'okay, what makes this particular offence and this particular offender worse than the norm, and what makes them not so bad as most?'

Imagine you have a single mother with three children under 5 who has carried on claiming a benefit when she's no longer entitled to it so she can give her kids a slightly better standard of living. She got two grand from the DSS and now she's paid it back. Jail? I don't think so.

So the Judge might look at who the victim is, whether Arry has got form for tax evasion or other offences, the amount of the fraud, whether it's a one-off or an ongoing series of frauds and so on. So if 40 people all lose their jobs if he's sent down, he did it all on his accountant's advice, he admitted it when interviewed and he's paid back every peny plus interest and made a large donation to charity, maybe he gets a hefty fine and a suspended sentence.

I don't myself see that happening here, but you never know.

Ok, cheers mate. If a guilty verdict is reached, let's hope the judge is impartial in his sentencing ;)

Impartial? Bollocks to that, I want the Judge to be a dog-hating Arsenal fan with a hangover whose wife has just run off with Gareth Bale.

 

[bluemoondays]

Lets face it, setting up an offshore account in Monaco using your dog's name for the account has to be dodgy as sin. What honest person does something like that?

If I was on the jury just that bit of info alone would be enough to convince me he was guilty with the rest of the evidence.