Sublimely Absurd – Police Force apply for Warrant for their Chief Constable!
The Colin Port saga gets better and better.
Matters hotted up last week as, according to one legal source close to these matters: “Last Friday the police applied for a warrant against the Chief Constable to enable them to take possession of the computers lawfully. It was seen as a device by the court which refused to issue a warrant.
“The judge said it was an attempt to circumvent the order of the High Court requiring him to return the computers.”
This – the absurd spectacle of a police force applying for a warrant against their own Chief Constable – is almost certainly the catalyst for an application made to the High Court yesterday requiring that he turn up and explain himself. A spokesman for the High Court confirmed that “in the Divisional Court, Lord Justice Maurice Kay and Mr Justice Collins granted permission for the applicant (Jim Bates) to seek an order. That application will be heard on 16th June.”
Colin Port, remains adamant that he will not return 87 hard drives and 2,500 photographs of abuse seized from the home of Jim Bates, a forensic computer analyst, and expert witness in child abuse cases.
A Prime Minister who thinks he’s saved the world.
A Chancellor of the Exchequer who cannot fathom out his own tax forms.
A Home Secretary in court for fraud.
A Chief Constable banged up for contempt of court.
Truly you have to feel for those political bloggers who have soldiered on, year after year, building up their clientèle, searching for stories, us newbie’s are just having blogging manna thrust on our plate day after day……….
I think I’ve died and gone to blogging heaven………
H/T The Register.
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May 27, 2009 at 19:23 -
I sincerely hope that the High Court acts extremely forcefully with regard to this self appointed judge.
Whatever he, or his Force, may think about the person who had the material, they have acted illegally and must obey the High Court.
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May 27, 2009 at 19:36 -
Sorry Anna, didn’t read a word of your post. Was too busy looking at his hair!
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May 27, 2009 at 20:15 -
I laughed, but actually, when listed like that, we the british people, residents/voters, should be ashamed, why aren’t there riots night after night ? or at least protests demanding to know what the f***
people ‘in the seat of power’ are up to . . .
It appears that the people we’ve been told we can trust to govern/police/protect britain are as dodgy as that fish i’ve left in my fridge since last week . . . -
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May 27, 2009 at 20:41 -
Miss Mink
I think you will find the thing they all have in common is The organisation Common Purpose.
As to why we aren’t rioting basically because we aren’t French.
Although I do think it’s probably time that we had a popular uprising as we haven’t had one for about 400 years and it would be rather nice to vent some spleen on the streets. -
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May 27, 2009 at 20:55 -
You are indeed a lucky bunny AR. So much for ‘All things come … ‘.
Love your list, particularly the restraint you showed when constructing it. Less is more.
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May 27, 2009 at 22:38 -
I worked with Colin Port a few years ago and he is one scary man.
Everyone called him Mmmmister Port and were terrified of him – like a headmaster with a big cane and ready to use it on anyone.
Having read the story, I’m a bit lost as to what it really is all about…
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May 28, 2009 at 00:34 -
I hope Jim Bates isn’t going for any long walks on his own.
With or without a penknife.
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May 28, 2009 at 10:44 -
I wonder what the Chief Constable wants with harddrives full of images of abuse.
Maybe they’re intended to be dumped and conveniently ‘found’ on the home computers of political dissidents who get raided…
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May 28, 2009 at 11:54 -
Agree with Rab, as an officer of the law he should have better hair than that.
Not sure where he gets his hairpieces fitted but he is hardly a good advert for the firm.
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May 28, 2009 at 12:04 -
Not wishing to upset any of the august posters on this thread re “Irish Jigs”….. but……..
When it comes to trivialising Ms Raccoon’s serioius threads, I would just like to point out that myself and Ms Smudd resent outsiders muscling in on our jobs.
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May 28, 2009 at 12:54
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May 28, 2009 at 12:25 -
Be advised Ms Racoon that the lawyers for the “Elton John Foundation for Wig Abuse” are keeping a close eye on this thread.
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May 28, 2009 at 12:54 -
Spot on there, Saul – I reckon between us we’ve hijacked most of Madame Raccoon’s ‘serioius’ (sic) threads; that’s not to say we shouldn’t welcome fellow lampooners.
I can’t see anything wrong with his hair. Mind you, I favour the ‘Thora Hird’ myself, so clearly I have no judgement.
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May 28, 2009 at 12:56 -
Anyway, on the subject of sublimely absurd, what about Sir Bufton-Butterfill on Newsnight last night referring to his staff as SERVANTS?????
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May 28, 2009 at 13:14 -
Back to the hair.
At first glance I thought it slightly odd. But each time I have read a cutting comment I have taken another look (memory isn’t as sharp as it used to be) and each time I thought it more odd until eventually it started to annoy me.
After careful analysis I have decided it is an idiosyncratic style which incorporates elements of the temple fade, cupcake and faux hawk. Perhaps the Chief could find time to visit AR and confirm or deny my judgement.
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May 28, 2009 at 13:55 -
I can see the temple fade, I might argue it was more midget gem than cupcake but I don’t see faux hawk. It just looks as if it’s slipping off backwards.
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May 28, 2009 at 14:01 -
I suspect a hairdresser has told him height in the top of his hair will either, balance out the fat face and wobbly jowels (ha ha), or take away attention from his fat head (ha ha) and it appears to have worked, your all about the hair and nothing about his balloon head.
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May 28, 2009 at 14:15 -
I think he looks rather dashing, maybe it was his good looks that elevated him to the position of Chief Constable, it certainly wasn’t his knowledge of the law.
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May 28, 2009 at 14:17 -
What about demarcation……
……mutter, mutter……..
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May 28, 2009 at 14:36 -
Dashing, Zak? Your idea of dashing differs wildly from mine. Mind you, Fred Astaire has been called dashing – if the Chief applied some brylcreem and dropped a few stone maybe he would be Astaire dashing.
What about demarcation Saul? I know you’re bound to tell me.
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May 28, 2009 at 14:42 -
Ms Raccoon calls it “*panish practices” but the PC brigade have banned that saying.
Time for a closed shop Gloria?
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May 28, 2009 at 14:43 -
He looks like Christopher Biggins sans Widow Twanky costume.
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May 28, 2009 at 14:51 -
Spot on Saul!
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May 28, 2009 at 16:07 -
Saul, I’m all in favour of a closed shop as long as it’s a cake shop and I’m the only one allowed in after hours.
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May 28, 2009 at 16:55 -
Will you settle for a branch of Greggs? I’m particularly fond of their Pepper Steak Pasties.
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May 28, 2009 at 17:59 -
That sounds perfect; anywhere that does a selection of savouries and has a separate cabinet crammed with creamy, custardy comestibles would suit me down to the ground.
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May 28, 2009 at 18:14
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May 28, 2009 at 18:51 -
It’s not entirely voluntary – it’s what you might think of as a menopaustache and just goes to show I haven’t been vigilant with the Immac.
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May 28, 2009 at 21:17 -
Not on haircuts but on the sublimely absurd I think – all day long there have been reporters from Sky reporting ‘live’ while dawdling around in Cambridgeshire claiming that the cuckoo is now so scarce it’s now been awarded RSPB ‘red list’ status. Well, there’s a cuckoo hooting away on a bare branch in a tree 100 yards from my house and it’s been there shouting its simple song for the last 3 days. So that’s alright then. None of the little birdies in the area need worry about raising a brood of their own young this year when they can confidently expect to find an ugly little usurper comfortably managing to choke down every insect-laden beak’s worth the dedicated foster-parents can find.
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June 10, 2009 at 22:46 -
Mrs Port, she who benefited by more than
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