Varsity Express

[MerchantVenturer]

I don't see why the police are getting it in the neck for this.

Down the years many sets of circumstances have fallen one side or the other of the borderline as to what is criminal and what is civil.

Remember also that the police no longer have the responsibility to prosecute criminal offences - it's the job of the Crown Prosecution Service to decide whether a person should be charged with a criminal offence, and if so, what that offence should be.

Clearly, if the evidence suggested no criminal offence had been committed then there could be only one outcome.

Just because many of us might think that the criminal law has been breached in any given set of circumstances doesn't mean it has been and, in any case, most of us are not legally trained and rarely if ever are privy to all the facts surrounding an investigation.

If anyone is to blame for the sometimes blurred position of the criminal law vis-a-vis the civil law it's the law makers, ie Parliament.

[Captivep]

The only question now is whether it's worth his creditors taking action to try and retrieve any money he's got left; even if there's nothing they could at least drive him into bankruptcy.

[learjet50]

Un believeable

The Man is atotal rouge and crook what about the poor pepole he conned out of Money for type ratings etc

Still the police will do u for 34 MPH in a 30 Limit but not put these tosstossers were they belong

[Groundloop]

Still the police will do u for 34 MPH in a 30 Limit but not put these tosstossers were they belong

Once again Learjet50, you never let facts get in the way of a good rant. As mentioned above the decision to prosecute or not prosecute is NOT taken by the Police but by a bunch of pen-pushing civil servants called the Crown Prosecution Service.

[TSR2]

Still the police will do u for 34 MPH in a 30 Limit

And so they should, after all you are breaking the law. If you think this is wrong, lobby your MP for a change in the law.

[01475]

Mr Halstead is trying to erase his embarrassing history from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...2nd_nomination)

If anyone has any well thought out, reasoned, calm and neutral comments as to why they should not, ...

[Aero Mad]

If his Wikipedia article gets deleted, I'll write his biography. He deserves to be documented

[01475]

Oops - link didn't work.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Halstead (2nd nomination) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[No RYR for me]

Nobody at GoBVI figured out who he is?

[Pilot Positive]

Bad egg in the barrel...

Was the final decision to Keep his profile? It appears so....and it would be a warning to others.

However in terms of his aviation profile lets hope its sufficiently prominent to prevent him entering into any kind of aviation related activity ever again.

[Cyrano]

Originally Posted by Pilot Positive

Was the final decision to Keep his profile?

I count 9 actual votes so far - 6 "keep" and 3 "delete"...but 2 of the 3 "delete" votes are by users who haven't done anything else on Wikipedia and whose identities were both created in a 30-minute period yesterday evening (so if one were suspiciously minded one might suspect sock puppets...) The vote process usually runs for 7 days and I think there's another 6 to go.