BBC News- Loyal friend to violent gangs!

[cherenkov]

The Radio 4 morning bulletin this AM would normally be expected to focus on actual current news. Instead they gave major priority to a story from 2008 which concerned the name and address of a youth who witnessed a gang's violent assault, and who had agreed to testify, being passed on by parties in the CPS or the Met to the gang members who then began a campaign of intimidation. The outcome involved the entire family being taken into witness protection and a six figure compensation sum being awarded to the family.

In an interview the family's lawyer repeatedly used the word 'systemic' to describe the failings that this case threw up. Strange then that she appeared not to know whether it was the police or the CPS that were at fault, or indeed was prepared to say how many other instances of this allegedly 'systemic' failing she was aware of!

Of course the BBC didn't give a monkeys about her defamatory comments, they had dragged up this old news to make trouble for the Met, the third most hated of their enemies, next to the Conservatives and the Murdochs.

The BBC claimed the dragging up of the story was justified as it was in the 'public interest'. By 'public' I assume they mean the young thugs in London gangs who will no doubt be very interested to know that thanks to the BBC they will now be much less likely to have to be inconvenienced by arrest and trial!

I'm sure the rest of the 'public' would have wished the BBC had not acted in their 'interest' by releasing a story that any fool can see should have been kept quiet.

Still, the damage has been done, and the streets of London are even more dangerous, thanks to the BBC, now that witnesses of serious street attacks will be much less likely to even contact the police, let alone agree to testify.

Well done BBC- haters of the police, and loyal friends and supporters of rioters, thugs, and murderers!

news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9696000/9696471.stm

Notice the abstract doesn't mention this case was settled in 2008.

[Teddy Bear]

Good item Cher - well spotted

The Mail also have an article on it.

Teenage witness gets £600,000 compensation after police reveal his name to violent gang he had informed on

• Boy was promised anonymity to give evidence against violent gang
  
• His identity was inadvertently disclosed to them
  
• Prosecution case was abandoned as a result
  
• His whole family had to be moved for their protection

By Kerry Mcqueeney

A teenage court witness was given a £600,000 payout after his identity was revealed to a violent gang he informed on.

The 16-year-old boy was promised anonymity to give evidence about a brutal assault they carried out but his details were inadvertently given directly to gang members.

The family then faced a campaign of harassment and intimidation.

Police at first denied the boy's identity had been disclosed, but once they realised the mistake they advised the family go into witness protection immediately.

As a result, the prosecution against the gang was abandoned - but the family ended up having to start new lives for their own safety.

It is unclear precisely how the breach of procedure occurred.

However, the family's lawyer confirmed a series of 'individual and systemic failings' led to police giving the information to gang members directly.

It was not the result of an error made by a third party, such as the identity mistakenly being revealed by a defence lawyer.

The payout, awarded in 2008 by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan Police, is thought to be one of the largest of its kind and came as the family of three had to be moved for their protection.

A CPS spokesman said: 'This payment relates to a case dating from four years ago where information was passed to the defence which led to concerns about the safety of a young witness and their family, so that they had to be provided with protective measures.

'The CPS recognised that its actions in this case fell below our accepted standard and, together with the Metropolitan Police Service, reached an agreed settlement of damages and an apology with the parties concerned.
'The unbelievable mistake by the CPS and police not only destroyed our lives but ultimately caused the complete failure of the prosecution case against the gang members'

'We regret that on this occasion we did not provide the support which is normally available to witnesses.'

A Met spokesman added: 'The Metropolitan Police Service aims to always provide victims and witnesses with the support they require.

'When we get it wrong we acknowledge it with those involved and if appropriate provide compensation.'

The family were relocated into the witness protection scheme after being threatened once details of the boy’s identity were disclosed.

It is believed the family launched legal action against the CPS and Met for psychiatric damage, lost earnings and disruption to their lives.

The damages paid totalled £550,000, with the CPS paying £350,000, and also paid the family’s £50,000 legal costs.

However, the family told the broadcaster that for the young witness, 'no sum of compensation would have given him back his youth'.

'He will never recover from this experience, he has lost trust in the police and if he were to witness a similar crime tomorrow - he would simply look away.'

Solicitors Bhatt Murphy, who acted for the family, issued a statement from them in which they said they had suffered three years of 'unbearable pain'.

It read: 'In 2005 when this incident occurred we were a hard working, law-abiding family with children.

'Despite our best intentions to help the police by doing what we thought was the right thing to help secure convictions against a violent gang, we were let down to the degree that our whole lives were turned upside down and our trust in the entire legal system was betrayed.

'We were left with no other option than to leave our homes, careers, families, friends and in our son's case his education, without even being able to say goodbye.

'The children were uprooted from their schools and whisked away without an opportunity to explain: the trauma and upset this caused is beyond words.

'The unbelievable mistake by the CPS and police not only destroyed our lives but ultimately caused the complete failure of the prosecution case against the gang members even though we remained willing to fully cooperate from within witness protection.
'When the error was realised, the police advised that the family had no alternative but to go into witness protection'

'We endured three years of of unbearable pain but the prosecution was abandoned because the of these failures.

'Starting our lives again has been hard to say the least. The compensation will go some way to securing a suitable environment for our family.

The memories will never leave us but, as time goes by, it does become easier.'

Fiona Murphy, the family's lawyer, said a series of 'individual and systemic failings' had resulted in the boy's name and address being revealed to the criminal gang.

She told BBC Radio 4: 'The family began to experience a campaign of harassment and intimidation and when they brought their concerns to the attention of the Metropolitan Police it was denied that their identities had been revealed.

'But eventually, when the error was realised the police advised that the family had no alternative but to go into witness protection.'

Ms Murphy also said the 'breach of procedure' happened in the very early stages of the investigation.

[cherenkov]

So will the Met and the CPS now sue the solicitor for using the the highly contentious and damaging word 'systemic', implying as it does that this kind of betrayal of prosecution witnesses is going on all the time? They bloody well aught to imho. But no, I guess they will be forced to conclude that the gratuitous damage the BBC has once again done to the incredibly difficult crime reducing and prevention operations of the Metropolitan police will be best countered by not responding and relying on the 24 hour news amnesia of the public to make the problem disappear.

In future they should also consider that it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the witness or members of the family might make a deal with the suspects to stage a scam leading to the levels of compensation that were awarded. In this case no individual appears to have been found responsible for the leak. Seems then that any explanation is possible but by then it was simply too politically incorrect to even suggest the gang might have found out for themselves by keeping an eye on who was coming and going outside the police station and then 'negotiated' with the witness's family to come up with a scam to get get them off and the family compensation.

From what we were told, nobody really knows, but of course this didn't stop the evil retards at the BBC from another nasty swipe at the Met that can only increase the level of endangerment of Londoners at the hands of these violent gangs.

As regulars will know my step-son is an officer serving the Met. Perhaps you can understand how it feels when the BBC dredges up an incident that happened seven years ago to undermine the operations of the organisation my step-son is proud to serve in.

If the BBC succeed in turning London into an area where policing is viewed by the police themselves as a poisoned chalice not to be touched with a bargepole, then the fun and games will really start as officers fail to be recruited to meet the city's mammoth policing needs.

However the BBC will still be blissfully happy broadcasting the ensuing carnage around the world for all to see. Rather like they so enjoyed doing last Summer, they will never miss any excuse, however contrived, to show it all over again.

[Teddy Bear]

If you measure your anger at the BBC multiplied by the hundreds of thousands, including police and military personnel, that the BBC have negatively impacted in our society, that's a lot of anger coming their way. In their arrogance they believe they will continue to get away with doing what they do, without any come-back. I've no doubt that the shit will hit the fan for them, if for no other reason than the society they are busy creating will make that happen. Then they will see that anger unleashed in ways they can't imagine.

What goes around - comes around.