Jobstown jury looking for Garda Air Support footage of Jeep which Joan Burton and her adviser were in, to see if it could reverse#3news
— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoc3news) June 29, 2017
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The only backward gesture in Irish history that would have been appropriate.
Lads and lassies, this is 3 hours after it all started. Regardless of who’s right and wrong this video evidence is being portrayed with a propagandist style fantasy.
100% right. Showing a 60sec clip with a bit of audio is not proof of anything.
Showed she could have left anytime really.
Video is fact
What video did you watch, I seen a minute or so of video. No video showing she could have left anytime, unless your saying this little clip was the complete protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SsccRkLLzU
There’s been a lot of idiocy posted today but “video is fact” might take the biscuit.
Well done, seriously.
It seems strange that a minor has already been found guilty of the offence of false imprisonment in relation to this incident thus setting precedent for the trail of the adult defendants whose fate is still under deliberation.
Is there a method by which the previous guilty verdict can be overturned if the evidence presented in this trial secures a not guilty verdict. The judge’s threshold for conviction was set quite high in that she stipulated false imprisonment had to be total. This video evidence seems to put that question to bed.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/jobstown-trial-schoolboy-discharged-after-false-imprisonment-verdict-1.2838080
Spot on Mel. The 17 year old was told if he stays out of trouble for nine months he won’t have a criminal record.
The establishment need to save face but it’s to late. They’ve taken on the wrong crowd at the wrong time.
FREE THE BOYS!!!
Didn’t the kid plead guilty?
No, but he was prosecuted in the district court.
it is nothing short of absurd to suggest a charge of kidnapping with that amount of gardai present. if those protesters are found guilty then will we see 30-odd gardai facing disciplinary action of doing nothing while a crime is committed within eyesight?
Excellent point
Was anyone charged with kidnapping?
Only in scottser’s fevered imagination.
point taken – correct to ‘false imprisonment’ then.
Garda state
Garda state what? State its a Thursday, state its raining, what exactly did the garda state.
Dear crazy consipracy lefty mob…
…we don’t give a poo!
royal ‘we’ – ?
The question in this element of the defence is whether it was reasonable to reverse – I’m no expert on angry mobs, but I imagine that reversing through one could seriously risk the safety of anyone foolish enough to try and get behind the vehicle, and in the circumstances it was likely, or at least foreseeable that someone would have attempted it.
Not Guilty. Such a farce of a trial that I’m sure someone has made money out of.
Broadsheet?
The question to the jury is simple, and two fold.
1. Do you hate Irish Water and/or water charges? Yes / No
2. Do you like Paul Murphy? Yes / No.
Yes to both = Innocent
No to both = Guilty
Yes and No = You’ve lived with Paul Murphy or knew him well in the past
No and Yes = You’re destined to die alone
Job done.
What is it about Murphy that triggers all these weirdos?
Something in the water maybe.