Gotta be honest I'm with RCP on this, the guys dead and the investigation can be as traumatic as the crime it's self.
It's their choice unless the police have enough evidence for a criminal case.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,543
Quote: sootyj @ 29th April 2014, 11:33 PM BSTI do wonder if this is yet another wind up.
Could be complete ignorance on my part or it could be the number of times I've read the words 'so and so suffered from depression and had a history of drug use'.
Heck, some people even use their private medical information as a defence in trials - obviously they are volunteering this information.
My belief, rational or otherwise, is that private medical information isn't a sacred pact locked away in an impenetrable vault.
Question is did that information come from their GP.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 29th April 2014, 11:41 PM BSTCould be complete ignorance on my part or it could be the number of times I've read the words 'so and so suffered from depression and had a history of drug use'.
If that's in the context of a criminal conviction, then it will have been volunteered by the defence barrister in mitigation.
I generally won't whip out the depression card unless a)it is diagnosed by an actual health professional, rather than my client professing to be a bit down. Wormwood Scrubs would make anyone "a bit down".
b)I think it has contributed to their actions in some way - e.g. lots of people self-medicate through alcohol and then offend whilst drunk.
Do I really bloody care if Harry has fallen out with his girlfriend? Saves us all the cringeworthy shite that surrounds a royal wedding.
Quote: sootyj @ 29th April 2014, 11:44 PM BSTQuestion is did that information come from their GP.
That's a big question I can't answer, the sources are usually never revealed. The other massive problem with 'the system' is that if you're arrested and proven innocent, then the record of your arrest is there on your records for a long time.
Getting any kind of previous arrest expunged from your record is incredibly difficult.
Quote: keewik @ 29th April 2014, 11:48 PM BSTDo I really bloody care if Harry has fallen out with his girlfriend?
Short answer: yes, yes you do.
Long answer: Otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it. 
Quote: keewik @ 29th April 2014, 11:48 PM BSTDo I really bloody care if Harry has fallen out with his girlfriend? Saves us all the cringeworthy shite that surrounds a royal wedding.
Well here's a puzzle to puzzle you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvilNcOyd30
and no, I hope Harry ends up bumming Moyes and taking him and George on a world tour on his chopper so I can ignore all 3 stories at once.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 29th April 2014, 11:53 PM BSTGetting any kind of previous arrest expunged from your record is incredibly difficult.
Well, it will never be expunged from your police record, because they need to keep a tally on everyone who is arrested. If there is a spate of random robberies in the area, they need to know if someone has been arrested 3 times previously for the same thing in the same area.
I have never seen the fact of arrest ever being disclosed to an outside agency though.
Argh! Too much news at once -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27211508
Drummer from The Scorpions arrested at airport in Dubai for being drunk and insulting Islam.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27210448
Star Wars cast revealed!
Quote: keewik @ 29th April 2014, 11:48 PM BSTDo I really bloody care if Harry has fallen out with his girlfriend? Saves us all the cringeworthy shite that surrounds a royal wedding.
I feel a bit sorry for them, actually. Unlike William and Kate, these two seem relatively normal. It must be hard to conduct a relationship under that kind of pressure.
Quote: Jennie @ 29th April 2014, 11:57 PM BSTI have never seen the fact of arrest ever being disclosed to an outside agency though.
There are lots of countries that we share information with, including US Customs and Immigration. So there could still be plenty of repercussions.
Quote: Jennie @ 29th April 2014, 11:58 PM BSTI feel a bit sorry for them, actually. Unlike William and Kate, these two seem relatively normal. It must be hard to conduct a relationship under that kind of pressure.
That Cressida Bonas - aside from having a really stupid name (not her fault) always reminded me of those weird 'child women', like Emma Watson or Natalie Portman. Seemingly frozen by a 'paedo ray' to stay young for pervys everywhere.
And before you think I'm being sexist, I think DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon Levitt are similarly afflicted.
Quote: Jennie @ 29th April 2014, 11:58 PM BSTI feel a bit sorry for them, actually. Unlike William and Kate, these two seem relatively normal. It must be hard to conduct a relationship under that kind of pressure.
'Royal' with 'normal' is a contradiction in terms.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 29th April 2014, 11:53 PM BSTShort answer: yes, yes you do.
Long answer: Otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it.
Obviously I should have posted it in TTPYO.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 29th April 2014, 10:59 PM BSTI shouldn't be criticised or mocked
But that's the only reason some of us come on this thread! 
Quote: Matthew Stott @ 30th April 2014, 9:14 AM BSTBut that's the only reason some of us come on this thread!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27216172
It's yet another open day on Nigel Farage by the media and politicians. Today they are calling him a big, yellow, chickeny, fraidy cat for not standing as an MP at the Newark bi-election.
Yep, that's Newark with a 16,000 Tory majority. New polls confirm that 3 out of 4 British people think there is too much immigration, but let's gloss over that and throw yet more brickbats at UKIP.
I'm also enjoying the Groundhog Day like reporting from the BBC about UKIP, with reporters being sent all over the UK with the singular question: 'Why does UKIP have so much support?'
Yep, for some reason, closeted, privileged, middle class, London based, liberal leftys from the BBC just cannot fathom why UKIP enjoy so much support. It seems it's not just the politicians who are out of touch with the 'common people'.
Perhaps we should force all our ex-Pats and tax exiles to come back and live in the UK and then force all our recent immigrants to go live in those vacated posh houses in Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Australia and New Zealand etc.
