Undercover police bikers use hidden cameras

Undercover police bikers are using hidden cameras in Sussex in order to gain evidence of Dangerous Driving and speeding offences.
Three defendants have pleaded guilty and received sentences for their dangerous driving:
Sean Robertson appeared at Hove Crown Court on the 7th. October. He was captured doing 90mph in a 50mph zone along the A22 on a Sunday. He almost caused an accident. He received an 18 months ban and required to do an extensive re-test, Also, 80 hours Community Service.
Richard Gilbert was at Brighton Magistrates Court for doing wheelies on his Suzuki bike on the A23. He was given a 12 month Community Order in order to do 250 hours unpaid work.
Claire Bunton  appeared at Chichester Crown Court on the 1st. October. She had been seen weaving in and out of traffic in her Toyota Celica on the A24/A280. Speeds of 106mph were recorded in a 70mph zone. She was banned for 18 months and fined £2k.
So be extra careful out there guys!

Facebook Sexual Slurs

An unemployed man, Colm Cross, pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates Court to leaving sexual slurs on Facebook members' walls. He even left obscene messages on the Facebook page of the late Jade Goody from Big Brother fame.
He was prosecuted under the rarely used Communications Act 2003. He is currently awaiting sentence.

Which way family justice?

It could be worse. In Mozambique recently, two men over seventy were beaten to death by their own families.
Their crime? They were said to have been witches. Five of the family members were arrested and apparently admitted the killings.Fortunately or not, the lawyers at M23LAW (Hedley-Saunders & Co) can only represent suspects in England & Wales and were not practising back in the days when trials of  alleged witches were common.

Failure to reveal a computer password to the police.

Teenager Oliver Drage has been sentenced at Preston Crown Court ( where this firm has had cases in recent years) to four months imprisonment for refusing to reveal his 50 character encryption code to investigators. Oliver's computer was seized by the police after a PACE search of his address. He was not convicted of any other offence. The police have still not cracked the code and we at M23LAW reckon that there will be more prosecutions under the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. We have had cases in our local county forces when our clients have also declined access and have avoided prosecution after many months of being on police bail. Apart from cases involving children and downloading, we feel that the State will use these wide ranging powers in the areas of illegal file sharing and insider dealing. The sentence could have been up to five years if 'National Security' was at stake.