The first concerns Sophie Dazell, who at the age of 20 has already racked up eleven convictions for assault, vandalism and failure to comply with community punishment orders.
Back in court at Manchester last Tuesday for (again) failing to comply with a community order imposed for an attack upon police officers, her pathetic excuse was that she’d gone to Belgium for breast enlargement surgery.
This is a criminal who has previously failed to complete an un-paid work order and failed to comply with a curfew by refusing to wear an electronic ‘tag’ as it ‘wouldn't look good’ when she appeared on late-night adult TV programs.
Despite her record of complete and utter disregard for court orders she was, once again, set free.
Me? I’d have revoked all previous community orders and on account of her record of non-compliance with non-custodial sentences banged her up for a month, and see how that impacted on her ‘adult TV’ work.
My second gripe is with the Allendale ‘Care’ Home and the Greater Manchester Police.
When 83 year old Walter Crompton applied a doctor-prescribed morphine patch to his wife’s arm, who was unlucky enough to be resident in the above ‘care’ home, they reported him to the police who searched his home, arrested him on suspicion of administering a noxious substance (remember, this was doctor-prescribed medication), kept him in custody for seven hours, interviewed him twice and banned him from contacting his wife.
It took three months before the Criminal Protection Society, sorry, not allowed to call the Crown Prosecution Service names, decided there was ‘insufficient evidence’ to proceed.
I don’t know who is worse, a ‘care’ home who so patently doesn’t care, denying a suffering lady her prescribed pain killers; the Greater Manchester Police, manifestly incapable of telling the difference between a caring husband and a criminal, and who have so few criminals in Manchester they can afford to waste days investigating what Detective Superintendent Joanne Rawlinson called ‘a potentially serious incident’ when she defended the indefensible; or the CPS for instead of throwing this stupid would-be prosecution straight into the bin took three months to conclude there was ‘insufficient evidence’ to support a prosecution.
Sometimes I despair of the CPS, and especially the Police, for being blind to common sense; my disgust for the Allendale ‘Care’ Home knows no bounds.
