Inside Cambridge Magistrates’ Court (source)
I went to Cambridge magistrates courts on Monday the 25th of July 2011 as this was the date set for the trial of Mr Jacob Wills and Mr Curtis-Watson following allegations they had obstructed PC Hinks in Kings College Cambridge after a protest in the city.
The case was not listed [...]
Milton Road Pharmacy (Google Maps)
On the morning of the 25th of July 2011 I observed Cambridge magistrates sentence Mr Justin McKenzie Sharp, born on the 7th of March 1962, and living at 222 Victoria Road in Cambridge to eight weeks in jail.
Mr Sharp was not in custody prior to the hearing, he walked into [...]
Junction of Cherry Hinton Road and Wulfstan Way (Google Maps
On the morning of the 25th of July 2011 I observed Cambridge magistrates deal with a Ms Waresha who had pleaded guilty to careless driving following a collision with a cyclist in Cambridge.
The prosecution said that on the 25th of January Ms Waresha was driving [...]
Cambridgeshire Police’s Sector Inspector for the Ely area Robin Sissons - Interviewed for a Star Radio Podcast.
Every two weeks Cambridgeshire Police’s Sector Inspector for the Ely area Robin Sissons does an interview with Star Radio which is published online as a podcast. Highlights are also broadcast on the radio. Last week I noticed @StarCambridge inviting [...]
On Thursday the 7th of April Cambridge City Council’s full council debated and approved new city wide police priorities.
All Liberal Democrats and most Labour councillors voted to drop burglary, robbery and cycle theft from the priorities and approved new priorities of:
Alcohol-related violent crime in the city centre
Repeat victims of domestic violence
Repeat incidents of anti-social [...]
I observed a meeting of Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership on the 11th of March 2011. The group sets the city wide policing priorities and holds the police to account for their performance against the priorities set. At the partnership’s February meeting I complained that it had taken the key decision of selecting the priorities [...]
Cambridge Magistrates’ Court
On Monday the 7th of March 2011 I spent the day observing two of the magistrates courts sitting in Cambridge. I went along primarily to see the students sprayed with “Pava” by police officers within Kings College at their first court appearance. Having seen a video showing the police use of the incapacitant [...]
Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Liberal Democrat County Councillor for Castle ward in Cambridge, and feminist activist, has been acting as a citizen journalist over the last two days reporting via Twitter on the progress of a court case from Guildford Crown Court.
According to a local radio station’s summary of what’s going on 28-year-old, Hannah Morris of [...]
Members of the public can have their say on a review into the UK’s extradition arrangements.
The Home Office is currently inviting members of the public to have their say on a review into the UK’s extradition arrangements.
The closing date was 31st December 2010, but it has now, almost silently, been extended to the 31st [...]
Observing History - Heathrow Robbery Trial Starts Without Jury
Supporters of the defendants in the UK’s first modern criminal trial where a jury has been denied placed banners on the railings outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
This morning I went to the Royal Courts of Justice to personally witness the start of the first modern [...]