CHILDREN OF FARMERS, KENNEL AND PET SHOP OWNERS REGULARLY PROSECUTED BY RSPCA
WHEN WILL THIS INSANITY END?
Sir, Edward Nugee, QC, claims in his letter (Jan 8) that “it is a fundamental right of a citizen of this country to institute a private prosecution of a criminal offence”. To support his argument, he says that “the RSPCA frequently institutes private prosecutions”.
The example he gives is a weak one. The RSPCA’s private prosecutions, and its prosecution of children and the vulnerable in particular, have long been a vexed issue. The charity prosecutes many hundreds of people, including about 60 children, a year. These people do not benefit from statutory safeguards that protect the vulnerable and children in CPS cases.
Last November, at a lecture delivered in Middle Temple Hall, Bernard Richmond, QC, proposed that it was always wrong for children to be privately prosecuted. Of the hundreds of advocates present, not one disagreed with him. Last September, the BBC radio programme File on 4 focused on RSPCA private prosecutions and, in particular, its prosecution of vulnerable people and children.
Lord Bingham, in Jones v Whalley \ UKHL 41 held that “it is hard to regard \ as an important constitutional safeguard when \ are all but unknown in Scotland.”
It is hard to disagree with Lord Bingham on this issue. I have defended hundreds of farmers, huntsmen and kennels in non-CPS prosecutions. My view, for what it is worth, is that the sooner private prosecutions become “all but unknown” in England and Wales, the better.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6981254.ece
7 comments:
the faster this scum are sortedout the better, this doesnt happen in scotland and most other animal welfare orgainsations leave it to the police to prosecute
I know of a case where the RSPCA proseuted a farmers son for animal negelct, he just helped his dad out on the farm and this lot got him a criminal record, ridiculous!
I need to be careful about what I say, but there is a thirteen year old child going for trial at the Magistrates Court which I work at next month. He's the son of a farmer, who is hated by the RSPCA locally, and he apparently helps out with his dad's shoot. The Magistrates have already been chosen for the trial, and I wouldn't want to be the boy, shall we say?
Well we know the RSPCA help to train magistrates, so I wouldn't bet on the lad's chances either.
Big Brother now goes by the name of rspca!
And from my direct experience of the Charity Commission, they are hypocritical as well, saying they are concerned about serious incidents on the one hand but are just so pathetic at dealing with serious incidents on the other hand. They are supposed to regulate the RSPCA.
Did you realise many child-sociopaths cut up animals, then become permanent sociopaths by the age of 15- DSM-IV. It would help if the RSPCA can raise awareness of this, since sociopaths are extremely harmful to humans; they don't need prosecutions in order to do that.
The head of the Charity Commission is a Labour Placewoman ---- Say no more!!!
They are lefty fascist scum - nothing more, nothing less.
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