SEC=UGA Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 A British judge trying a knife-crime case stunned the court by pulling out a blade. Campaign groups blasted Judge Roger Connor after he brandished a knife in front of a teenage defendant charged with wounding someone with a blade. The 16-year-old’s lawyer asked Connor if he was committing an offense — and was told it was acceptable because the blade was less than 3 inches long. Connor got out the folding black-handled knife at Oxford Crown Court to show how it worked. The boy, who denies wounding with intent and assault, had admitted using a knife and claimed he needed only one hand to open it. Connor asked: “It happens I have a folding knife in my pocket. You need two hands to open it, don’t you?” Under English and Welsh law it is an offense to carry in public a blade longer than 3 inches without good reason. Furious anti-knife crime campaigners called last night for the judge to be fired. “He should lose his job. One teenager a week is being murdered on the streets of Britain and here he is brandishing a knife,” Lyn Costello, co-founder of the Mothers Against Murder and Aggression campaign group, said. “Enough is enough – we need to get tough on knives in this country and our judges should be handing out tough sentences, not brandishing their own.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMD Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Man, I'd like to be the spork salesman in that county. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 There is a mania in Britain for banning whatever is the big thing that week. It's usually the newspapers leading the blather but the citizenry get caught up in it too. At some point they'll find they've banned themselves from everything and everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westvirginia Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 There is a mania in Britain for banning whatever is the big thing that week. It's usually the newspapers leading the blather but the citizenry get caught up in it too. At some point they'll find they've banned themselves from everything and everywhere. And perhaps one day will realize that banning inanimate objects NEVER works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted July 25, 2008 Author Share Posted July 25, 2008 You know, if that hadn't outlawed guns, knives wouldn't be that big of an issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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