Two men charged over Manchester Airport incident in July

https://news.sky.com/story/two-men-charged-over-manchester-airport-incident-in-july-13276899

by topotaul

17 comments

  1. At least Farage will shut up about this now, but he is going to claim victory for it.

  3. But i thought they’d been let off because of woke!

    More seriously, it really shouldn’t take this long to charge people for cases like this.

  4. I do think it would be helpful if both police and CPS could come out for a job like this and provide a detailed breakdown of why this takes so long. The public have unrealistic views/expectations of how long an investigation should take and such a breakdown may answer some of the questions people have.

    e.g.:

    On this date the report was made
    On this date we asked for CCTV – there was a delay getting it for these reasons
    On this date we tried to contact this witness – but they’d moved home down to London so we requested the Met get a statement from them.
    On this date we got the statement back.
    On this date all the enquiries were completed and we sent the file to CPS. It was assigned to a member of staff with a workload of 50 cases….

    Such transparency is surely a good thing, and would help negate any cries of conspiracy/foul play.

  7. Was this the incident that led to the video of the two muppets sat on the sofa with their solicitor claiming they were the victims?

  9. Let us hope saint nigel will be happy with this. (But I won’t be putting any money on it).

  10. Is it just me who is happy that the guy who stamped on his head got off with it? If you attack a police officer, you get what you deserve. In the majority of the world, you’d be shot dead.

    If you can’t handle the chance of being injured, keep your hands to yourself!

  11. Great. Now find the guy who attacked a waitress in Nandos earlier this year. No idea why this just faded away when it’s just as abhorrent.

    TLDR: Grown man smashes a metal plate into a teenage girl’s face in public, yet nothing happens. They could easily track him via payment records or other means, yet it’s just another vile anti-female hate crime that goes unpunished.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgeneq9wydo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQF679BlMyE

  12. Let’s wait and see how the IOPC react. They’re meant to be independent but that isn’t always the case.

    I’ll put a fiver on the officer getting charged with gross misconduct and having to face a panel where he could lose his job.

  13. I respect the police officers involved for having enough restraint not to pull their triggers. Most people in this world wouldn’t be able to control themselves to do so after being attacked so violently.

  14. No doubt they’ll roll out the usual talking heads on telly later today to say how this is the wrong decision, the police and CPS are institutionally racist and how they system works against ethnic minorities.

  15. Remember when people kept harping on about the fact that they had “gotten away with it” lol. When in reality clearly the police/CPS were working on the case.

  16. > He said the charges were brought after “careful consideration”.

    Given how many ended up in a court and in prison within days or a couple of weeks during the summer riots if they assaulted police the fact it’s taken the CPS 6 months to even decide to charge these two is disgusting and smacks of serious prejudice both in the CPS and in Starmer’s government.

  17. To all those getting agitated about the officers not being prosecuted don’t forget a misconduct investigation is still on going. One or more of them could still be out of a job in the near future. Personally I couldn’t be a copper for all the tea in China, whatever you do is wrong, every card available to be used by perps will be played, and then you have all the professional standards stuff. Also, don’t even think of using social media, but I digress. Before anyone starts the police should be held to high standards, just not impossible standards.

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