RAF engineers charged with stealing Paddington Bear bench statue

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1. Explains why they did such a shit job and left half of it behind

2. I would ask ‘why?’ But I’m sure the answer involves copious amounts of booze and stupidity.

3. Crim dam and theft at the age of 22. Not the best way to start off a military career.

   I am rather interested as to why the service justice system isn’t dealing with this set of relatively straightforward offences.

   These chaps could be charged with theft, crim dam, misconduct through alcohol and bringing the RAF into disrepute if put infront of their CO.

   The last two offences alone theoretically could be two years imprisonment. The theft and crim dam are significantly more likely to result in a custodial sentence from a CO than a magistrate too. Makes me think they’ve been very lucky to have been picked up by TVP and will likely end up with a slap on the wrist from the magistrate, and at best an administrative discharge from the RAF via the increasingly less useful admin/HR branch (although unlikely if the civ sentence appears minor).

4. If RAF engineers are going to steal a Paddington statue they could at least do a decent job of cutting it out, one would think.

5. That’s the thing you see when do something criminal under civvy law not only does civvy law get you, military law does too for one to in effect be judged and punished twice.

   That would be their careers over

6. This is treason and they should.be locked in the Tower of London

7. If found guilty that might turn out to be a career ending move.

8. I dare suggest that had it been R.E.M.E who’d done this, the bench would’ve had trolley wheels attached and the whole thing relocated somewhere.

9. some poor squadron is about to be known as ‘the pads’ over this.

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